baronvonj

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I mean, it's pretty clear that companies have been copying the overall shape. But that's because Fender didn't try to obtain the copyrights for 50 years! So I don't see any conflict in calling out Behringer for infringing copyrights while calling also calling out Fender for trying to enforce copyrights that they were denied 20 years ago.

Mostly, it's just that nobody uses their computer in the same room that the scanner is in, and they don't want to find a place to prop their laptop while using the scanner.

The challenge to finding one was keeping it in a sub $200 consumer device price range instead of a $300+ office line of devices. I managed to get a refurb Brother ADS-1800W and that supports network folders. But it's not available new anymore, as they've moved that feature into their higher price tiers too.

I don't want to have to interact back and forth between my computer and my scanner to scan documents. My scanner has buttons on it, I want them to work. There are very, very few scanners that will scan directly to your computer or a network drive using only the buttons on the scanner that don't require a Windows or Mac PC running their network scan server software. And the companies that do publish their drivers and software.to Linux don't ever seem to include the scan service component, so you have to drive the scanning operation from your computer instead of the scanner's buttons.