Part of an email to Canon regarding Scanners

[Moshe Brace using Yahoo]

Some of my friends they think that Canon is behind other manufacturers in not supporting the major Linux distributions like Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Red Hat, Mandriva and Gnome. Your scanners that work excellently in Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac Computers are getting the thumbs down and lets buy elsewhere due to non existent support regarding drivers by Canon.

Moshe

Nothing like taking on the big boys is there? If other manufacturers can do it why can't they give Linux support for their products?