[GRLUG] LINUX and NOT LINUX

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:22:48PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> I have a "CanoScan LiDE 100".  Sounds
> like it should work.  What version of Linux
> are you using?
> 
> One comment on the sane-canon630u
> man page:
> 
>        "Due to Canon's unwillingness to  provide  scanner  documentation,  this
>        software was developed by analyzing the USB traffic of the Windows 2000
>        driver.  So things like the calibration procedure I kind of made up; it
>        seems to work for my scanner.  If you have complaints, let me know."
> 
> Looks to me as though someone has done
> a lot of work.

A lot of Really Good Things are developed this way.  Samba comes to
mind.  They reversed-engineered Microsoft's protocol by transferring a
file via SMB and analyzed the packets.  That's a lot of work.

I love Free software.
-- 
john-thomas
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