[Openicc] Drop size calibration

[edmund ronald]

If the software is not part of any distribution, who cares about
whether it is or not open source ?

If users can buy a spectrophotometer, insert the CD or download the
drivers and be up and running, and the manufacturer *supports* any
distribution which has a given open-source virtualization
compatibility, surely that is good enough for any user who wants to
get work done ?

The opinions of open source developers are without importance in such
a case anyway as the manufacturer software is not part of any
distribution, is only installed and downloaded by the final user, and
only communicates by way of files with any open-source packages.

I viciously hate companies who force proprietary and copyright file
formats on their users. But I also hate "open" apologists who attempt
to limit the user's rights by falsely invoking open-source legal mumbo
jumbo. You don't like what software I install on my Linux box at home
? Ok - go ahead and take me to court.

Edmund


On Feb 4, 2008 4:58 PM, Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere at teaser.fr> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:15 +0100, edmund ronald wrote:
> >  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.
>
> Which mean, for the community, that the driver be released under a Free
> Software license, and if any firmware has to be uploaded to the device,
> said firmware MUST be available for redistribution under terms that are
> compatible with distributing Free Software. [1]
>
> Hub
>
> [1] it is often acknowledged that the binary firmware, which runs on the
> device is not part of the driver but of the device. But preventing the
> distribution of it just cause problem for users that are required to
> install it by themselves. A click-through license is not compatible with
> the requirement either. Take example on Intel policy with the iwl3945
> driver for their wireless card.
>
>
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