[sane-devel] HAL and scanners.

[m. allan noah]

in one mail you say that we cannot use this solution because of
external backends, in this mail, you call them proprietary shit.

what we are talking about will not break those backends, they just
wont work immediately with HAL, just like all the weird PP scanners.

allan

On 3/20/08, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>
>  >  btw, do we have a list of proprietary backends and frontends?
>
>
> Frontends, we don't care, and backends, no, not really. Every other
>  day we run into some new proprietary shit. Sometimes we find that a
>  manufacturer developed a GPL backend, months ago.
>
>  Fact is, manufacturers don't even bother telling us.
>
>
>  JB.
>
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