Correction required for rating Brother support

[email protected] (M.V. Wesstein) Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:14:56 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.printing.general
Organization http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all

Today I found that on this website Brother is rated as "not recommended" 'cause
of their alledged lack of Open Source Software support. I have to object that.
I'm using a MFC 4550CN with Sane and Cups on Debian Sarge and that works great.
The only drawback I found was that the scannersupport was only available for
USB, not via the network. But triggered by the qualification here I got back to
the Brother website and found that Brother updated their scanner support and
now provide a package to use the scanner via LAN.

Brother provides great support for Open Source with precompiled packages for
most, if not all, of their models for Red Hat/Suse and Debian. See for yourself
and judge accordingly: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

DISCLAIMER!! I do not work for Brother or any associated company. IMHO Brother
deserves better credit on this website for their Open Source Software support.

Regards, M.V. Wesstein
the Netherlands