On Monday 29 September 2003 10:22 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
I the case of both of these devices the manufacturer won't cooperate with the devs at the sane project and release any info so they can build a driver/s.
Open source software is a comunity of people sharing their efforts. The "devs" you refer to are users like you who feel the need for a driver for their scanners enough to write one, and then give it to the comunity. Some manufacturers are better than others at suppling information, but many drivers have been created without any documentation. If you want a driver then write one. I know this is a very different environment to Microsoft where you get what you are given, and if "they" do not supply it you do not get it, but here there is no us and them. Writing drivers is not that hard, but it is normal to spread the load between several people who have different skills. Work is needed to research how the scanner works, write some code, test the code on many platforms, write the documentation, translate it. I am sure you can contribute to some of this. If you ask on the sane mailing list you may find someone else who would like to work with you on this. David