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

[Billy Crook]

No, you are not.  I still have WINDOWS drivers for hardware from the
mid 90's  I still have a copy of the FLOPPY DISK that came with an
ISA-card-attached handheld black and white Mustek scanner from windows
3.1.  I have no intention of ever using windows as a primary OS again,
or on physical hardware.  I don't even know where that scanner is, and
I doubt I'll ever see a working ISA slot again.  You keep the drivers
because it's your responsibility to your self.  HP could go out of
business next week and you buy a printer tomorrow.  Tough luck.
Personal responsibility.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 15:16, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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