VISA alternative

[Jim K. <ji...@ji...>]

If anyone has been reading the info-lv thread on NI VISA licensing, you can 
see that there is a huge demand for an open source solution for serial and 
parallel port I/O.  NI only allows you to distribute 10 copies of your built 
application that uses NI "Driver Software".  After that, they want $395 per 
copy!  Sounds like a good openg project to me.  How about OpenGSerp and 
OpenGPortIO?  I don't have the background to code up the OS interface or 
sharedlib, but I can help with all other aspects of the project.

-Jim