John, see below in text.
John Zoidberg wrote:
Hi,
I just noticed 2 interesting ideas on ubuntu brainstorm:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11513
This idea is stupid because it ignores the fact that scanModem is
updated weekly on the average and often more with new modems and new
solutions.
Some distribution, forgot which, once contained scanModem: a nice
gift to us support team, plenty of useless (obsolete) output to read.
What distros might contain is, perhaps, a link. But as you know (egg
and chicken) a working connection is needed to access links,
repositories, distributions, you name it.
So even that idea is of value only for probably not completely
newbies who have access to a LAN or DSL to fetch such material.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11583/
This idea is stupid because the way is NOT SIMPLE. Reading scanModem
output is much faster than any "GUI" multiconditional search tree.
As many but not all people know, the slowest and most clever computer
peripheral device is human.
It is not because Bill Gates assumes that all users are stupid and
makes much money exploiting this, making them more stupid daily, that
the Linux community HAS TO clone his views on human beings.
I have a better idea to offer.
Near the bottom of Web page http://linmodems.technion.ac.il there is a
site usage report, very much detailed, number of calls, files, etc....
Please compare its activity with the daily number of persons applying
for help to discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jacques
It seems the license might be a problem.
So what is the license of the scanModem tool?
Could it be integrated into GNU/Linux distros and can a GUI be created for it?
John
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