On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:19:26PM -0400, User zos wrote: | I had the same problem with getting drivers for an HP printer once. I find | it totally absurd that you pay to buy a printer (or a computer) from a | company and when you lose the driver disk you have to literally BUY | another one from them. How is this even legal? By owning the printer you | automatically should own a driver set and if you lose that, the company | should make one easily available to you. Boy, I remember the day when you | could just download pretty much any driver you need from the internet. Not | on HPs site.....
Yeah, I used to find all the HP drivers I wanted on their site. That was back in the days (~97). | What's funny is now microsoft is going to try to charge people to *rent* | their software. Does this mean that one day you will *rent* the drivers | from HP for a few months or so and then have to rent them again if you | need to reinstall? Can't we do something about this? I mean really, can't We certainly can do something : use (and develop) Debian while boycotting proprietary hardware. Microsoft can't charge us rent for using Debian :-). -D
