Hi Simon,
Simon Heywood wrote:
> Perhaps someone could tell me if any other efforts are underway to prise
> information and/or drivers out of Canon, or point me in the right
> direction as to how to take things further (I'm quite prepared to take the
> Canon USB issue on myself). Perhaps a petition would be in order?
Sorry I don't know about Canon but we are trying the same with
Microtek for their 3600 scanner. I can't really give you any
advice about what you should do but I can tell you about our
experience so far...
For months we got no reasonable responses by email since I think
the customer support people didn't even know what we were talking
about. Then Marian Eichholz managed to get a contact, through a
European office, with an engineer within Microtek Taiwan. He said
that while he personally thought it was a good idea to write
drivers for other systems the info we wanted was currently only
available under NDA and that the decision to release the info was
not his.
Currently Marian is running a poll to see how many people who a
driver for the scanner. So he can go back to Microtek with some
numbers to help sway their opinion.
I'll let you know if we make any progress.
HTH
g
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