Sounds promising. Which reminds me, how is the BSD Ports conversion going? that would be very nice to have done, but an awful lot of those items are not exactly high priority consumer items.
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/FreeBSD/
From that web page: "FreeBSD ports is a vast make system for all of the third party software that has been ported to FreeBSD. This is one of the major source code repositories on the net. Here are the steps to get it working with OSX. GNU-Darwin users should adapt these instructions accordingly."
You're right, childish message board posts aren't exclusive to Linux sites or Linux users; check out some of the message boards at MacCentral.com to see how childish some Mac users can be. And I don't look at many Windows-related message boards, but I'm sure the same is true on those, as well. (Disclaimer: I use both Mac OS X and Linux, so I frequent both Mac and Linux-related sites.)
But just because it happens everywhere, doesn't mean we should just accept it and forget about it, and that's especially true for loyalists of minority OSes. Windows users can complain, whine, moan, and be childish, and they'll still probably get their drivers or whatnot. Even if the company hates the insults and name-calling, it's in their best interest to release the Windows driver, anyway, even if for no other reason than financial. Although a few companies can thrive by supporting niche markets, for most large companies, supporting the majority and de facto standard, no matter how rude or childish the people may be, is simply a necessity.
Users of minority OSes don't have that luxury; we need to convince HP and other companies that it's worthwhile to develop drivers (or at least release specs) for less financially beneficial platforms because they are *superior* platforms. Name calling and immature complaining is NOT the way to do that.
So, once again, I'm in agreement with you that the message board idiots are everywhere, and yes, HP should at least release the specs for the scanner in question. But I also think Taco is right on, and I applaud him for taking the stance and writing about it.
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Sounds promising. Which reminds me, how is the BSD Ports conversion going? that would be very nice to have done, but an awful lot of those items are not exactly high priority consumer items.
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/FreeBSD/
From that web page: "FreeBSD ports is a vast make system for all of the third party software that has been ported to FreeBSD. This is one of the major source code repositories on the net. Here are the steps to get it working with OSX. GNU-Darwin users should adapt these instructions accordingly."
You're right, childish message board posts aren't exclusive to Linux sites or Linux users; check out some of the message boards at MacCentral.com to see how childish some Mac users can be. And I don't look at many Windows-related message boards, but I'm sure the same is true on those, as well. (Disclaimer: I use both Mac OS X and Linux, so I frequent both Mac and Linux-related sites.)
But just because it happens everywhere, doesn't mean we should just accept it and forget about it, and that's especially true for loyalists of minority OSes. Windows users can complain, whine, moan, and be childish, and they'll still probably get their drivers or whatnot. Even if the company hates the insults and name-calling, it's in their best interest to release the Windows driver, anyway, even if for no other reason than financial. Although a few companies can thrive by supporting niche markets, for most large companies, supporting the majority and de facto standard, no matter how rude or childish the people may be, is simply a necessity.
Users of minority OSes don't have that luxury; we need to convince HP and other companies that it's worthwhile to develop drivers (or at least release specs) for less financially beneficial platforms because they are *superior* platforms. Name calling and immature complaining is NOT the way to do that.
So, once again, I'm in agreement with you that the message board idiots are everywhere, and yes, HP should at least release the specs for the scanner in question. But I also think Taco is right on, and I applaud him for taking the stance and writing about it.