Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

From: Ben Ford (ben@kalifornia.com)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 23:15:16 EST


Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:

>> Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print
>> engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers?
>> Can Alpha users get this print system working? Can Sparc uses
>> get it working? What? I can't? They can't? Well, its no good to
>> me nor them. You've just made the system x86 specific. Well done,
>> thats a step backwards, not forwards.
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, why can't the specification be along the lines of a
> vendor data file saying ``if you want the printer to do x then say y'' and
> ``if the printer says x then it means y''. That ought to add a lot of
> functionality right there. Sure there are evil winprinters that this
> wouldn't be enough for but it would be hardware independant, yes?

isn't that what windows *.INF files do?
(don't flame me I'm not sure about it)

-b

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