Scanner recommendation

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi]

Em Sáb, 2011-02-05 às 00:53 -0800, perryh at pluto.rain.com escreveu:

> Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Somebody saying "I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner"
> > is motivation.
> 
> So perhaps what is needed is for N FreeBSD users to say "I'll buy
> it, if it runs on FreeBSD."  Any guesses on how large an N would
> be needed to provide sufficient motivation?

My experience (many, many years) says that the question is something
different:
How much $$$ do you need to produce (compile) a FreeBSD version???
300, 500, 5000???   Money talks.

If ou make this question to Adobe, they will never hear you, but a small
company (Ed) 
may be he will.

As FreeBSD comes out with a new version about a year (or two..) 7.x ->
8.x -> 9.x
a version of the sofware needs to be done (compiled) seldom.

Let's say the ammount of money that interests Ed is US$5000.00

I am considering this kind of approach,  various:
1) collect money in the freebsd community US$10 each you would need only
500 persons
2) Found an org, and using tax reduction program to finance software:
here is is possible...


Any new ideas???

Sergio