On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:27:03PM -0400, J wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 14:46, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:17:05PM +0200, J wrote:
> >
>
> Meh... you probably did. I blame jet lag.
You haven't left yet.
>
> Not at all... I was merely pointing out that the people who make said
> multi-function devices only make those good drivers for Windows...
> it's not something that Canonical or anyone in the Linux community can
> really do as most of the drivers (scanner at least) seem to be the
> result of reverse engineering and code-pray-code-some-more
> development. Sadly, peripherals will continue to be neglected by the
> manufacturers in the Linux space as part of a self-propogating ring of
> misery. Without Linux adoption in the end-user/home-user space en
> mass, the companies who make various scanners will not create those
> one-driver-to-rule-them-all packages but without those drivers,
> end-user/home-user adoption won't come as fast as it could.
I think it's changing--very slowly of course and sometimes one step
forward, 2 steps back, and a lot of that is due to your boss. I
remember reading somewhere that some vendor CEO or C something mentioned
that businesses are more prone to listen to Mark Shuttleworth because
he's proven himself in business.
Then you have things like Dell taking Ubuntu off their site, but as was
mentioned in the slashdot comments, most people who use Ubuntu aren't
going to buy Dell. As you mention elsewhere, though phrased slightly
differently, (I'm trimming for brevity), it's a bit of a vicious circle.
There has to be a larger user base to get the vendor support, but
without the vendor support, there won't be a larger user base.
Have a good flight home. *THEN* you can blame jetlag. :)
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