Re: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners
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
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