[Openicc] Drop size calibration

[edmund ronald]

Barbieri made an interesting response extending my VM suggestion, they
said that the same VM trick might be used on *all* platforms
(including Win, Mac) thereby ensuring that by using a single VM
distribution *all* platforms are perfectly synchronized with respect
to their instrument, and meaning they only have ONE set of drivers to
write and validate. Gerhard made the same point earlier.

As to Hal's justified concern about obsolescence, let me note that as
long as the host VM emulator is updated the original "firmware" VM can
still run on successor platforms. I believe Virtual PC player is
actually free software, solving this issue nicely.

Edmund

On Feb 5, 2008 6:53 AM, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
>
> And this concern is very real.  Many Linux users have been burned by hardware
> vendors who promised to provide drivers and either did not or only provided
> binary blobs and then stopped supporting the hardware leaving users who
> purchased thier hardware stuck with hardware that was useless.  If you took a
> poll here perhaps 20% to 30% of us have had this or something similar happen
> to us.
>