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• Cups, et al. (Score:4, Interesting)

  by gizmo_mathboy (782) <reversethis-{moc ... } {yobhtamomzig}> on 2003.02.17 22:30 (#17197) Journal

  Must be working by a complete fluke for my friend that has a Laser Jet 4 (one of the monster size printers used by companies) and it worked perfectly using all of the default settings.
  
  Maybe the Jonestown escapees are now in Redmond?

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  • Re:Cups, et al. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by chromatic (983) on 2003.02.17 22:50 (#17198) Homepage Journal

    Of course it works, it's using PostScript! Though it's controlled by Adobe, it's a reasonably popular standard, especially on the high end.

    Now if our friends in Redmond want to discuss why companies refuse to release specifications for people who want to write drivers but are thwarted, we'll have a more interesting conversation.

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• Printer Drivers (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  I remember back in the days of Windows 3.1 (yes, pre-WFW, pre-Win95, pre-Winn't) one of the students in my school's CS department was a Microsoft co-op. Because we were a Macintosh university, he as generally regarded as a "turncoat" by a lot of the technophiles. He did gain a very northwestern sensibility on economics in the software industry.

  Back then, he said that the printer system under Windows was a piece of utter crap. It was a holdover from the Win2.x days(!) and hadn't been touched in years.
• Printer Drivers?!? (Score:1)

  by Terje Bless (758)

  Microsofties beeing unfamiliar with the relative completness and "Commercial Grade" of Linux is one thing; but bringing up Printer Drivers as an example of what the Free Software model is unsuited for...? Printer Drivers...?!? The Irony...
  
  I guess "Know Thy Enemy" -- and the oft repeated story of how Richard Stallman got started writing Free Software in the first place -- never made it into the Basic Training programme at Microsoft Boot Camp. :-)