[sane-devel] [Fwd: News] about Canon

[Thibault North]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Christopher Albert wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 17:22 +0100 schrieb Thibault North:
> 
> Hello,
> Here are some news about Canon and our prefered OSes
> Have a nice weekend,
> Thibault North
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: News
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:15:06 +0100
> From: Thibault North <tnorth at bluewin.ch>
> To: Canoscan5000f-cvs at gna.org
> 
> Hello nobody :P
> I've just had a phone with Canon, not the hotline that time ...
> They are going to try and do something for the GNU/linux community.
> I have insisted on the OpenSource aspect of the stuff, not to recieve a
> binary driver for each scanner...
> Problem seems to be from Canon Japan, which doesn't like to see specs
> beeing published...
> Anyway, we'll have news from them before February, I hope.
> Thibault North

> Hi!
> One question to Thibault first: With whom from which department of Canon
> did you speak? (just interested)

i don't really know which one, but I could speak with someone from
Zurich (Switzerland) who was presented as someone working in a technical
departement. He seemed sure to be able to do something if the Japanese
Canon is a bit flexible.
We spoke about HP (distributing free drivers) and about the GNU/Linux
community, and he said he knew there was a lot of users to hear...
But let's take all that carefully, nothing is won yet and it seems that
these companies have a so complicated structure that making a move may
be slow and unefficient.

> I have experienced something quite similar. I phoned the marketing
> director for Consumer Products of Canon Austria to ask him if he and his
> company agreed with my MP750 support project (http://mp750.berlios.de).
> He told me that due to Canon's company structure of mostly independent
> national departments the technical specs needed to write drivers don't
> make their way out of Tokio in general.

Yes, exactly. The guy told me he was going to try and change that
(seemed to have good contacts)

> But he encouraged me to continue
> my efforts, he pointed out Canon's and his own positive attitude to free
> software. He couldn't offer me any further technical support though :-(.
> I think that Canon is a positive example for an international
> cooperation that is working efficiently, but managers seem to care about
> their employees and customers. ( just my impression :-) )

Yes, exactly. He admitted they didn't hear a lot of their customers and
I think they want to change that.

Thanks, hope this won't fall once again...don't rejoice too quickly !
Have a nice weekend and happy end of year fests !

Thibault (Sorry for his english)

> Thanks for all Thibault, please keep the sane-list up to date regarding
> this topic.

> Have a nice weekend,
> Chris



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFDo01p6Xb3bo96D2URAg1LAJ98mO2KkOdl0cmYIdKH44otRzLcWACePj1U
OlzL8OCNUkpzeLz8fCHGShc=
=lcsz
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----