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Hi, On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:22:59PM +0100, DervishD wrote: > Not exactly kernel related, but anyway: I wrote almost a month > ago to Menarini Diagnostics. They make glucometers, and the latest > model they sell can be connected to the PC with a special cable. Of > course, Windows. [...] > I haven't got any answer from them. I can use other glucometer, > of course, but this one is, IMHO, the best one in the market and I > don't think any other vendor would give me specs for their products. Possibly you wrote one mail only? Then try again... they might easily be too busy or whatever. > And please note that I'm not talking about all the specifications > of the glucometer: they can keep secret the way the glucometer makes > the measurements, I don't give a heck about that. I only want the > *communication* specs, so I'm able to retrieve data from the > glucometer through the cable (which is USB, AFAIK, so probably it > won't need a new driver). Be certain to use libusb if possible instead of a new USB driver (which you seem to indicate properly above) > I don't know how much Menarini paid for the Windows version of > the software. Probably more than the entire Linux kernel will cost to > produce in its entire life. The cost of a Linux version for them will > be a cable and a PDF document of the communication specification, > which probably will be a known protocol. They don't want to do it > because: a) they don't understand a word of the open source movement > and how it can be used to save money; or b) they're so stupid, > stubborn and money avid that won't do anything that doesn't involve > money, even if the money goes out of their own pockets! You're talking strange things here. "Probably more than the entire Linux kernel will cost to produce in its entire life" - yah, right! And you're jumping to conclusions and resorting to name calling about their (non-)behaviour. Andreas Mohr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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