[Openicc] Drop size calibration

[edmund ronald]

 The guys I need to talk with at Xrite are offline this week. I will
have a chat with them *again* about the open source issues when I
manage to chase someone down. What I am telling Xrite is that
supporting Robert's efforts to color manage his drivers is
commercially useful because they are getting to production quality and
will be widely used.

 It would be useful if people in the open source community also
realized that a solution needs to be found for open-source *users* who
want to use spectros.

 It seems that in the past, from what people have told me off-list,
Xrite were willing to designate a maintainer who would distribute
binaries, maybe one distribution could be chosen for users who just
want to get on with their work, and act as a reference implementation
under which everything *just works* ?

 Frankly, I think one could for the benefit of everybody consider that
the driver of a piece of hardware is a part of the hardware, and if
the supplier of the hardware is prepared to somehow finance or
encourage the driver development and affirm they will support it then
one should not oppose this on purely philosophical grounds.

Edmund

PS. I have a hearty dislike of UV-filtered intruments for the photo
market. I would like to discourage people from using them * for photo
printing * as viewing lights typically contain UV.

On Feb 4, 2008 7:49 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:
> edmund ronald wrote:
> > Ok, I'll ask Xrite marketing if they want to donate a spectro to a
> > needy cause. I think an EyeOne is a good solution.
>
> I agree that for all round flexibility, the EyeOne is the right choice.
> It's just a matter of getting one at the right price :-)
>
> Graeme Gill.
>
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