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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Tamarack scanners
To: brian@mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:28:38 -0700 (MST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, multimedia@star-gate.com
In-Reply-To: <199512052044.MAA03761@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Dec 5, 95 12:44:07 pm
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> I'm trying to get a scanner up under FreeBSD.
> 
> I contacted Tamarack Corp, makers of the Tamarack line of scanners,
> and they said that their SCSI commands are a trade secret.
> Hence I returned the tamarack.

My response would have been "I didn't have to sign non-disclosure to
get the thing, so you wouldn't mind if I ran a SCSI analyser on the
thing and documented it to the internet, right?".

Then I would have returned the thing on principle.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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