Well, thanks for the feedback. :) May I quote you (or link to the public mailing-list ^^)? On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> Unlock your computing: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ > -- Unlock your computing: http://www.getgnulinux.org/
