On Wednesday 25 October 2006 05:38, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Wednesday 25 October 2006 05:38, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 15:36, George Arseneault wrote: >> >A photographer friend of mine suggests, that you check >> >the cannon website for linux drivers. >> >> Did that yesterday George, came up empty, like linux should be a 4 >> letter word to canon. Thanks for the suggestion though. > >Linux *was* a four-letter word to Canon, for a long time, but I > understand that they have *very* recently seen the light, and we can > expect more support in the future. Let's hope the article I read was > right. > >Anne I hope so, some of their printers look pretty good when driven by winderz. And may even be ok for linux as I see mentions of them go by on the gutenprint list from time to time. But a major change in attitude on canons part would surely be mentioned there and I don't recall any real discussion pertaining to it taking place. The other half of that problem is that canon, like hp, is a far-flung outfit, and official changes in attitudes often take years to reach the folks in the trenches. I suspect it starts in a particular trench, but often gets stepped on in the boardroom & never gets past the CEO. But then CEO's should be treated like babies and changed from time to time, for the same reason... :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
