[sane-devel] Sane is definately not Scanner Access Now Easy

[Theodore Kilgore]

1. I agree. Well said. I am usually on the "user" end rather than the
"developer" end, but I do understand the issue very well. Though even I
can sometimes ask a dumb question when in haste.
2. Sometimes I am kind of on the "developer" side, too. Scanners are a bit
above my abilities (yet?) but check out my article on an mp3 player, on
e-zine.nluug.nl
3. How did the above-mentioned article get written? The aforesaid mp3
player is supposed to be designed for Windows98 and have drivers provided,
but IT WOULD NOT WORK IN WINDOWS98! Therefore, it should be added to what
is quoted here, that sometimes the shoe is on the other foot, and hardware
which is claimed by the manufacturer to be good for Windows when used as
prescribed, will not work at all unless one troubles oneself to run it in
Linux, which occasionally is quite easy. I would bet that this is true
about scanners, too, as well as portable mp3 players.

Sorry this gets off of topic, which is to stick to the business of getting
our scanners to work better, but I just could not resist.

Cheers,
Theodore Kilgore

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:03 am, Thomas Niesel wrote:
> >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
>
> I agree. All that mule skinnin, and not one single expletive to
> delete.  Of such are works of art made.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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