win95/98/ME and printers. An ethics issue comparable to DRM servers or not?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

>
> Furthermore, the argument made by Chris does not hold water simply because
> the
> commercial developers have been paid to provide something, and anything
> paid
> for should come with some kind of warranty, not to mention ownership (or an
> equivalent license) of what has actually be paid for. Freeware, on the
> other
> hand, logically comes with absolutely no warranty.


Yeah, but Luke, we're talking about stuff that's a decade old.  Warranties
*do* end.  And as Billy Crook points out in a later message, "any
responsible printer owner has had ten years not to download copy of the
drivers."
Am I the only person who archives drivers until the hardware is gone?

-- 
Chris
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