On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 19:58, Tim Waugh wrote: > > So I took the question to the other side of the fence to a friend who > > works in high upper management, who's words carries a lot of weight, for > > a highly respected hardware manufacture, well at least for printers in > > my book. > > As far as printers are concerned, the big problem is that even when > good free drivers exist, the data on www.linuxprinting.org is often > out of date or doesn't list as many printers as it could. Would be great if manufacturer releases the driver under a GPL license and works with CUPS to include it. In a non-Windows world, they can forget about drivers and custom applications which they ship on CD. Printers and scanners work out of the box and applications are already included in distributions. I look with disgust at CDs with software and drivers included in hardware products. I paid for it and I don't need it... -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro
