Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote: Hi,
> Did Till write that the LSB standard applies only for > broken binary drivers? The LSB tries to ensure binary compatibility between distributions, which very obviously benefits more to proprietary crap than anything else? > For example the epkowa driver from IScan is free software. No, epkowa is not free software. A large part of the scanners it supports actually rely on proprietary, binary-only protocol interpreters shipped as Linux/i386 shared libraries. If you don't need to use such a scanner, then you don't need to bother with epkowa, as your scanner is pretty much for sure supported by either epson, epson2 or snapscan. > I would appreciate it if there were more free drivers from > manufacturers but manufacturers ask for reliable standards. > If SANE1 was LSB, there would be such a reliable standard. I think SANE1 has proved its stability over the years now. This is nothing else than a very poor excuse for manufacturers. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org> <jb at jblache.org> GPG KeyID 0xF5D65169