Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]horror stories like pascal's are why i hold out hope for SANE and other open-source initiatives. open-source gives you the control over your environment. (all you need is a little C programming!) with closed-source, once the manufacturer no longer finds it economical or strategic to support the software, any change to the environment could render the software and--in this case--the hardware useless. does anyone out there have a nice linux-based image processing workstation? i'd love to know. - -rei > From: "Pascal" <cyberdog@attglobal.net> > > I have also had to retire a perfectly good > Canon MultiPass multifunctional simply because Canon didn't want to > update its drivers for the machine beyond Win95/98. They'd prefer you to > buy a new machine instead. > And my Epson Stylus Photo 1200 (2 years old) is not even supported under > MacOS X any longer. Epson didn't find it necessary to update its driver, > not even in the latest driver package. Nice people. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html