Hi Henning ..cut > > Maybe I got something wrong here but this is the story how I see it: > > * You want to use a scanner made by a manufacturer who doesn't provide > drivers for your operating system > * the standard drivers that (most likely) come with your os don't support your > scanner (other operating systems don't even have scanner drivers > shipped with them) > * someone wrote a driver for your scanner without beeing paid by you > or the manufacturer of the scanner. He even lets you access his development > tree before the release is done and before it's in your distribution's > package system. > * you have quite a few questions about installation and running. Quite > some of them could have been solved by looking at the documentation. > Others result from compiling software on your own (and would have > existed with any other package) > * About 10 people, quite some of them developers of the SANE system > you use, try to help in several ways. These are not paid support > people but the ones that actively use the code or even created it. > * Your scanner works now. > > Probably tens or hundreds of hours have been spent to write a driver > *for you* (and others). Hours have been spent by people trying to help > *you*. > > And despite of all this you are constantly complaining about SANE and > Linux. > > I will never understand this. > ...cut
Yepp, great answer ! Some poeple coming from $WinSucks dont even think about this and maybe should stay with that OS and call these _very_ cheap hotlines after paying for a peace of hardware to get it running... Do you have a copyright on this ??? I like to use it for other mailing-lists if you dont mind... Thomas --
