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On Sunday, November 11, 2018 1:35:29 AM CET Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I'm on the hunt for a scanner, flatbed type, and have been browsing Ebay |
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> and the sane project list of supported devices. I'm leaning toward HP |
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> on this. While looking at say a ScanJet 6200C, it says the drivers are |
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> no longer maintained but complete. It leads me to this question. Does |
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> that mean they are complete and fixes will no longer be made even if |
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> something breaks them and they need a little tweaking OR they are |
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> complete and if a bug pops up, they will be fixed as needed but all |
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> functions work? I can see the logic either way on this. I'm leaning |
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> toward the side that if something pops up that requires a little |
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> tweaking, it will be done by someone. The drivers are just feature |
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> complete. |
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> Does anyone else have the same thinking or is buying one of these |
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> scanners a bad idea if the drivers were to break and the scanner was |
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> rendered no longer usable? |
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In short: |
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"No longer maintained" = "If something breaks, you can try to fix it yourself" |
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"Complete" =(usually)= "All functionality works at time of testing" |
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In general, if the drivers are Open Source, someone somewhere might still be |
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maintaining this if anything does break. If there is a binary blob required to |
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make it work, it depends on how this part actually works. |
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If it can be treated like an appliance (eg. with input X will always do Y and |
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output Z), then you can ignore the fact it is a black box. |
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