[XCSSA] USB->SCSI adaptors

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Friday 16 February 2007 19:38, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
[...]
> but obsoleting a 2-year old piece of equipment and refusing to
> rewrite drivers, while shipping drivers for an obsolete operating
> system (I think this was after the 9.x "funeral") was not in the
> spirit of said slogan.  They also had obsoleted a bunch of SCSI PCI
> cards from the MacOS 9.x era.

I've encountered something similar with Apple & third party driver support...
Three years ago, my mom upgraded her old G3 from OS9 on to OSX.  The previous 
year I had bought her a rather nice 2400DPI Epson USB scanner... After 
upgrading to OSX, the Mac wouldn't recognize it any longer and Mac & Epson 
support both told her that she needed to upgrade to a newer version of the 
scanner(?!?!)...  For a while, she was actually dual booting Mac OS9 and OSX 
just so that she could still use it.  Now given her last OSX install, the 
scanner is now effectively a door stop.

Why does Apple and third party driver writers have such a short support 
lifecycle with OSX driver support?  I mean she had it literally for less than 
a year!

Don't get me wrong... Apple has nice hardware and now has a nice OS to boot 
(no pun intended).. OSX really Rocks.. but this is a perfect example of how 
closed source = closed options... open source = limitless options.

Tweeks