I got to reply to this!
On Saturday 24 February 2001 01:53, Oren Held wrote:
> Hello Noam
Hello Noam, Oren
>
> 1. I'm sure suse didn't create this driver by themselves. I believe that
> what it uses is what I use for my hp720 - pnm2ppa. it's a driver made by
> someone not related to suse, you can use it with any distro.
Actually, HP and VA Linux are sponsoring people to write GPL drivers for
their HP printers (deskjet and laserjet). They're releasing soon 44 drivers
for those printers..
So you see again, Oren, money here HELPS to create open source drivers!
> 2. yast is good indeed. but it's not free and it has a stupid license as
> far as I understood. I prefer a GPLed program.
Bzzt! I definately don't agree with you. USE the right tool for doing the
job! if you got many options, then take the one that you preffer, but
disqualifying a product due to it's license? thats THEIR programs and their
rights to even release it without a source code! yast is not useful other
then in SuSE Linux. So you don't want to use it? fine, do it manually or use
webmin or Linuxconf - but everyone has his full right to release a product
under any license he want.
Disqualifying a program that you need to use just because it's not GPL is not
a smart move in my book - unless you want to redistribute the code or doing
other things with it.
Hetz
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