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

[David Nicol]

> 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.

does the printer in question work with Linux?  Donate them an antique
second computer as well, configured as networked printer driver / file
server / squid-cache / firewall.  Donate them some 10baseT cards and a
crossover cable.  Heartily welcome them to the early nineties.