Indeed it is not an easy undertaking and a new (cheaper) A3 scanner could be purchased for under <?100 so it's unlikely to warrant a massive move towards crowd funding although it was a good plan. I don't know of any sites to help crowdsource OSS, if this kind of thing were to be put on kickstarter I suspect the time would run out before achieving funding.
-- Regards, Kevin McDonagh <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmcdonagh> | CEO @ Novoda.com Tel: +44 (0) 7981 932 411 Tweet <http://www.twitter.com/kevinmcdonagh> Bookmarks<http://pinboard.in/u:kevinmcdonagh/>& Pics <http://www.flickr.com/photos/appletv/> On 23 September 2012 16:37, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > Writing a device driver without help from the manufacturer is a > difficult, time consuming task. Its pretty rare for a programmer to > undertake such work for fun. Perhaps all these artists could get > together a bounty, and/or provide hardward to a developer, to > encourage the development. Or, find a friend who is a programmer, and > send them here to ask for advice on developing a backend. > > allan > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Kevin McDonagh <kevin at novoda.com> wrote: > > Hi, if this backend is written many artists of the below linked thread > would > > really appreciate a quick update to let them > > know their scanners will once again work on Mountain Lion! > > > > > http://underdesign.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/getting-my-mustek-scanexpress-a3-tabloid-scanner-working-under-photoshop-cs4/ > > > > Thanks, looking forward to any updates! :) > > > > > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20120923/8009063c/attachment.html>
