m. allan noah wrote: > the project is composed of many individuals, each with different > goals/interests. The part of the website you quoted does not suggest > to me that we are gunning for TWAIN, just that SANE is a better > design. > > however, history is FULL of better designs that did not make it for > cost/political reasons. technical superiority != market penetration. > > TWAIN is well established, well supported, and represents 90% of the > existing install-base. This is not likely to change even if we all > dropped our attempts to maintain backends and focussed entirely on > browbeating the mfgs/oems. and since this is something that most of > us are not interested in, we as individuals do not tend to do it. > > if you dont mind my asking, explain your interest in sane. why does it > matter to you if it supplants TWAIN?
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