[Openicc] Drop size calibration

[edmund ronald]

I called up people I know at Barbieri. They agree that the OSS
solutions eg. Grame Gill's software are getting very good. They say
that they cannot open their drivers completely at the moment, but they
will examine the solution I suggested which consists of bundling all
the proprietary stuff in a virtual PC box **which would be identical
across all platforms, proprietary or not**  and which they would
maintain - a virtual firmware, in a way. The virtual box would
communicate cleanly with the outside world.

 My impression is that Barbieri would be ready to support the OS
developers with measurement hardware if a solution can be found for
the drivers which satisfies both them, their clients and the OS
community.

Edmund



On Feb 4, 2008 2:46 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>    Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:15:51 +0100
> There won't be too many open source programmers attracted to this kind
> of platform.  In any case, since there are free drivers available for
> a number of instruments, those will get used, and the proprietary ones
> will be ignored (if there are good substitutes) or reverse engineered
> (if they otherwise have useful characteristics).  Proprietary vendors
> might not like that, but the truth of the matter is that the dynamic
> behind the FOSS world is that someone who wants something badly enough
> does it, and there are no managers who can put a stop to this kind of
> effort to protect a strategic alliance.
>