On 6/8/08, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu <kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: > > And here we see the problem, in a nutshell. My own course is quite similar > to Allan's, though I do my work for another project. > > I think that what is going to have to happen, ultimately, is that some of > these hardware manufacturers are going to see if they can find a competitive > advantage by cooperating with us. Perhaps the fact that SANE has been > contacted by someone at Canon is a sign of better things to come. It is, > after all, an improvement over the occasion a couple of years ago that one > of the main Gphoto developers sent a letter to Canon. The reply that he got > back said that Canon does not support Linux and recommended him to turn to > the Gphoto project because they had done such an excellent job of Linux > support through reverse engineering!
Canon is a very big company, where one hand may not know what another hand is doing. I personally have spent the last couple of years negotiating an NDA with Canon USA to get docs for the DR series machines. I would not be surprised if Wang Mengqiang is talking about an entirely different line of scanners, and has no idea that such negotiations are happening. > What I am curious about at this point is, why Wang Mengqiang of Canon has > been left off of the Cc: lines for some time, now. I think it would be good > for his body, mind, and soul if he were to read the continued discussion. Wang Mengqiang is subscribed to the list, AFAIK. I also doubt that his body will be strongly affected :) allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
