Re: Request for sane-1.0.28 in 15.0
Noel Butler via slackware <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:40:49 +1000
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--===============0794430166== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_5523524e9e87426d6b1f896db1fb26a8" --=_5523524e9e87426d6b1f896db1fb26a8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 04/02/2020 14:03, TN Patriot via slackware wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 11:49:17 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard via slackware <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, TN Patriot via slackware wrote: > > I know *you* didn't reverse engineer anything. What I'm saying is that > unless people like you speak up to the hardware manufacturers themselves > to make the drivers needed for their hardware for *ALL* OS's, then some > person somewhere has to try to reverse engineer the software for people > like you who go looking for some software/drivers to make their hardware > work on their preferred OS. > While Canon does not distribute pre-built drivers for various linux > distributions they provide the source code which allows us to build the > drivers on our own systems. This is no different from what Slackware and SBo > provide: source code and build scripts so we can build what we need using > the specifics of our individual machines. > > Rich I fear you're completely missing my point, so I'll just end this here and wish you well with keeping up a hope someone will keep reverse engineering Canon drivers for Linux instead of demanding the hardware vendors do for *ALL* OS's as they do for M$ and Apple/Mac. errrrr I think you're missing the point, but i suspect you're only reading what suits your whinge, since nobody, nobody, is reverse engineering anything as Rich pointed out in his previous post, there is no skull daggery going on because they freely give out the source code. If you want pre built binaries, go use debian or one of its clones. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. 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Confidentiality, copyright, and legal privilege are not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery of this message. --=_5523524e9e87426d6b1f896db1fb26a8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset= =3DUTF-8" /></head><body style=3D'font-size: 10pt'> <p>On 04/02/2020 14:03, TN Patriot via slackware wrote:</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2= px solid; margin: 0"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ig= nored --> <div class=3D"pre" style=3D"margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">= On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 11:49:17 -0800 (PST)<br /> Rich Shepard via slackware &l= t;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" rel=3D"noreferrer">slackw= [email protected]</a>> wrote:<br /><br /> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2= px solid; margin: 0">On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, TN Patriot via slackware wrote:<br= /><br /> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2= px solid; margin: 0"> I know *you* didn't reverse engineer anything. W= hat I'm saying is that<br /> unless people like you speak up to the h= ardware manufacturers themselves<br /> to make the drivers needed for= their hardware for *ALL* OS's, then some<br /> person somewhere has = to try to reverse engineer the software for people<br /> like you who= go looking for some software/drivers to make their hardware<br /> wo= rk on their preferred OS. </blockquote> <br /> While Canon does not distribute pre-built drivers for various linux<= br /> distributions they provide the source code which allows us to build t= he<br /> drivers on our own systems. This is no different from what Slackwa= re and SBo<br /> provide: source code and build scripts so we can build wha= t we need using<br /> the specifics of our individual machines.<br /><br />= Rich<br /><br /></blockquote> <br /> I fear you're completely missing my point, so I'll just = end this here and<br /> wish you well with keeping up a hope so= meone will keep reverse engineering<br /> Canon drivers for Lin= ux instead of demanding the hardware vendors do for *ALL*<br />  = ;OS's as they do for M$ and Apple/Mac.</div> </blockquote> <p><br /></p> <p>errrrr I think you're missing the point, but i suspect you're only readi= ng what suits your whinge, since nobody, nobody, is reverse engineering any= thing as Rich pointed out in his previous post, there is no skull daggery g= oing on because they freely give out the source code.</p> <p>If you want pre built binaries, go use debian or one of its clones.</p> <p><br /></p> <div>-- <br /> <p>Kind Regards,</p> <p>Noel Butler</p> <table border=3D"1" width=3D"748" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"5"> <tbody> <tr> <td style=3D"text-align: left;"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><small><sm= all><small><small>T<span style=3D"font-family: courier new,courier,monospac= e;">his Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged inform= ation, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected un= der international law. 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