[argyllcms] Re: argyll colormanagement tools for endusers

> 1b ) Directly driving the i1
> -----------------------------
> As I read the documentation, there is some support for the GMB 
> spectrolino. But I didn´t found information about the i1.
> 
> questions:
> - Is it right, that the i1 is not supported actually ?
> 
> - If somebody is interested to write an interface for the i1 , I may can 
> lend one of my i1 to this person for several weeks or even for 2-3 
> months. In this case I would  prefer developers in germany or poland, 
> because this are the countries, where I´m living and travelling, so I 
> could meet this people directly. But also developers from other 
> countries (e.g. australia...) should feel free to contact me directly.

Jan-Peter,

according to the information I read in misc. discussion
forums, the biggest show-stopper is obvously that GMB
does NOT freely release programming information for
their I1 instruments, such that anybody who owns the
instrument could start an open source project. And
reverse engineering the communication protocoll is
a very complicated task. For the Spectrolino on the
other hand, the communication interface is fully
documented and freely available.

> - Interested to buy an i1 ?
> I have good contacts to GMB, for shure I can offer developers in europe 
> a price 15% to 20% under the list price. For bigger Open Source 
> projects, I can contact the GMB-Headquarter, if they make better prices, 
> or if they may make a donation to the project.
> Please feel free to contact me.

Maybe you can use your connections to obtain programming
information, which may be freely used for developing open
source solutions, without signing NDA? (Or, as a compromise,
maybe even NDA for the developers wrt. the supplied documents
might be acceptable, as long as the developed driver may be
distributed freely as open source).

If this major step is done, I guess that some developers
will anyway sooner or later pick up the task to write an
open source solution.

Regards,
Gerhard

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