Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN...

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:27:01 -0700

Oliver, do you want to take the lead on these discussions? Seems like
a great opportunity. I'm very interested in this topic, but am
unfortunately unable to make time for it right now.

I'd like to suggest to cc all mail to sane-devel so we can keep the
discussions open.

Cheers,

--david

>>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:43:53 -0400, 252353N@knotes.kodak.com said:

Mark> From: Mark McLaughlin

Mark> Hello...

Mark> My name is Mark McLaughlin, and I am the current Chairperson
Mark> on the TWAIN Working Group Technical Sub-committee. I am
Mark> sending this message to the manager for the SANE website in
Mark> the hope that it will reach the appropriate people.

Mark> There is growing interest (as viewed on our mailing list) for
Mark> seeing TWAIN support on UNIX platforms, particularly on Linux.
Mark> This interest has finally reached a level where the TWAIN
Mark> Working Group feels it needs to investigate the possibility of
Mark> adding support for UNIX.

Mark> We are interested in this because we believe there is an
Mark> opportunity to help developers of image capture systems on
Mark> UNIX, WIN32 and Macintosh platforms leverage their code run on
Mark> one or more or the alternate platforms.

Mark> TWAIN has no intention of competing with SANE. Rather we wish
Mark> to investigate a chance to employ the strengths of both
Mark> standards. We are not against the idea of seeing SANE running
Mark> on WIN32 or Macintosh platforms, and if there are ways we can
Mark> help SANE achieve this we would be happy to discuss them. It
Mark> is important that both groups benefit from any interaction.

Mark> We would like to start a dialog with one or more members of
Mark> the SANE group to discuss this further. Please feel free to
Mark> respond directly to me, or to the TWAIN Working Group as a
Mark> whole (twain-wg@twain.org); whichever you feel to be more
Mark> apropriate.

Mark> Many thanks for your time, we hope to hear from you soon...

Mark> Mark McLaughlin Eastman Kodak
Mark> Company mlm@kodak.com 716-726-1352

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