Re: Getting a manufacturer to release specs?

Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@redhat.com)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:41:24 -0500

Chris Pinkham writes:
>I hadn't thought of this until now, but do people think it might help
>"convince" parallel port scanner manufacturers to release their specs if
>they were informed that other manufacturers had already released their
>specs. Approach it from the perspective of lost market share and lost
>revenue.

Anyone wanting to do this should read
http://www.precisioninsight.com/alspaper.html
It was written for people wanting specs for video cards but is
equally appropriate here.

T he person who wrote it is the one who convinced Neomagic to let him
release X drivers for the Neomagic chipset -- he's had years o
experience working with companies one issues like this and his advice
is really good.

michaelkjohnson

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