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<title>sane-devel: Re: Windows port</title>
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<h1>Re: Windows port</h1>
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<b>R Pickett</b> (<a href="mailto:emerson@hayseed.net"><i>emerson@hayseed.net</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Sun, 30 Aug 1998 02:26:00 -0700 (PDT)</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0137.html">Ian Grant: "Re: Windows port"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0135.html">Andreas Dilger: "Re: Windows port"</a>
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On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Alex Belits wrote:<br>
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<i>> The last kind of people that worth help are ones that use Windows by</i><br>
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<i>> "corporate standards" and thus constitute major force, used by Microsoft</i><br>
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<i>> for their market dominance and thus keeping companies from providing</i><br>
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<i>> decent support for their hardware in non-Microsoft systems. While there</i><br>
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<i>> may be valid reasons for Windows port, this one isn't.</i><br>
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Although this begins to veer off-topic for this list, it always disturbs<br>
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me that there are those who vocally gauge others' "worth" strictly by<br>
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what platform they use. Alleging that Windows users are somehow not<br>
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"worth help," somehow beneath the notice of non-Windows users, is not<br>
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going to win OpenSource folks any friends. In any case, the GPL<br>
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prevents platform favoritism, which is a Good Thing.<br>
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SANE for Windows would allow Windows users access to networked scanners,<br>
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(which is a plus for people more interested in getting work done than<br>
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being ideological about OSes), would expose Windows users to GPL software<br>
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that might not otherwise see it, and might convince some hardware<br>
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manufacturers to write backend drivers which definitionally themselves<br>
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would have to be GPL and back-portable to other OSes.<br>
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Plus, some of my best friends are Windows users, and still deserve<br>
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cool software.... ;-)<br>
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R Pickett Look around you. This is what the world
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0137.html">Ian Grant: "Re: Windows port"</a>
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