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

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 31 July 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wait, what?  I'm pretty sure it started with Leo mentioning a desire
> > to give an HP printer away to one, but could not find drivers to use
> > on their old P2 running Win98...
>
> The original post from Oren Beck:

On Saturday 26 July 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> I was going to donate a HP printer to the arts center I'm volunteering for,
> but the computer they have right now is a PII-233Mhz machine running
> Windows98.  This turns out to be a sticking point which prevents the
> printer from being useful to them, as I don't have the original Windows
> driver CD.
>
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