CueCat (my .02 worth) (Score 1)

Good afternoon- I realize that this forum is *NIX-centric, which is fine even tho outside my experience. Still- I've been lurking several places since I heard about the cat in the hopes that there might be some activity towards writing a resident decoding app for Win 9.X/NT for this thing, so that you could use it to scan in data for any application, but haven't seen anything as yet. My whole MO is monetary in nature- I work in a library and we are, as are all nonprofits, library or service orgs, strapped for cash. Any time that we can get a deal on hardware means better services we can provide. So when I heard "free barcode reader", I was immediately thinking about getting some, tossing the junk that came with them and using them for inventory, check out etc. Beats spending 90-140$ for a regular reader, and less stress- who cares if some kid trashes the thing-pick up another one. IMO, DC can't say a thing about it- I've seen no licensing agreement- besides what's to stop my mother from getting one, "deciding she doesn't like it" and giving it to me? Whoops, lost the software that came with it! At any rate, I imagine that there are probably more than a few cheap/poor folks out there like me that want to take advantage of a freebie to make our lives a bit easier. Happens all the time-look at all the stuff showered on doctor's offices by the drug reps- they'd like the doc to prescribe the drug, but they have no legal leg to stand on that "by accepting this (free meal, pile of post-it notes, pens, whatever) you agree to only prescribe our product"- you get the idea.