4 comments

  • ValdikSS 2 hours ago
    It's a great concept, but you haven't open-sourced the previous code, as the license requires, and you're yet again apologizing in this project as well, without any code.

    Pretty sure you have my code in both projects. I contribute first and foremost to make printers and scanners to work reliably, but also keeping in mind the idea that I could at least try to apply legal actions for companies which violate the license rules one day, as a CUPS/SANE/printer/scanner drivers contributor.

    Printer companies generally don't like that: https://xcancel.com/ValdikSS/status/1745898408693371125#m

    Cool project though! Hope you can publish the source one day so we can all benefit from it in the future!

  • jdub 1 hour ago
    Hrm, yes-we-scan and printervention are built on SANE and CUPS respectively, which makes sense. But running them in a whole wasm-emulated Linux kernel and userland seems... like a lot.
    • jdub 1 hour ago
      Oh, and:

      > I must apologise that I haven’t so far open-sourced any part of this that I don’t have to.

      With some blather about commercial opportunities. Which is a weird thing to say without linking to the bits that must be shared (under the terms of the various licenses).

    • jdub 52 minutes ago
      Ah, it seems like the architecture was designed by a slop machine. OK.
      • userbinator 31 minutes ago
        RE'ing drivers and porting them is one of those things that AI turns out to be really useful for, and there have been a few of such projects posted here already. But of course the author has to drive it in that direction rather than let it just glue stuff together.
  • Aloha 2 hours ago
    I could also just go buy VueScan, which is cross platform and great.
  • brudgers 1 day ago
    The ShowHN a few days ago, https://yes-we-scan.app/