[Openicc] Drop size calibration

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:03 +0100
   From: "edmund ronald" <edmundronald at gmail.com>

   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 ?

If it happens to support the user's preferred environment, if there's
an iron-clad guarantee that the manufacturer won't go out of business,
or lose interest, or will fix bugs right away, if it happens to do
exactly what the user wants...

Different people have different ideas of "getting work done".  When I
started working on Gimp-Print, I could have just said "OK, my printer
works on Windows, guess I'll just use Windows to get my work done".
I'm one of those people who needs to understand something that I'm
using -- tools just aren't black boxes to me; they have certain
characteristics for certain reasons, and understanding those
characteristics, *why* they have those characteristics, and being able
to adjust them to the limits physically possible (and beyond, in some
cases) is important to me in order to be able to get my work done most
effectively.

   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.

You, as an end user, are free to install anything you please on your
computer.  But by the same token, respect the fact that I don't want
to be forced to install a proprietary blob in order to get *my* work
done, and I'm going to help do something about it where I can.

-- 
Robert Krawitz                                     <rlk at alum.mit.edu>

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"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton