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Quote of the week
The moral of the story, at least for me, was that the Free software
desktop has come leaps and bounds in the last decade. My
dinosaur-era expectations of trouble were not rewarded, and instead
I was treated to a great experience. Thank you to everyone who has
worked on making this possible: those who have slaved over printing
support, those who have made awesome toolkits like Qt to tap into
all the features, those who have guided companies like Samsung from
the relative dark ages into the light when it comes to Linux
support ... to all of you: my deepest gratitude.
-- Aaron Seigo(Log in to post comments)
Quote of the week Posted May 7, 2012 9:41 UTC (Mon) by pjm (subscriber, #2080) [Link]
If you read the article, you'll see that Free software failed to work with the printer; he had to download and install a proprietary driver for it to work.
Quote of the week Posted May 10, 2012 17:49 UTC (Thu) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]
So he is happy to get proprietary printer drivers?
I'm sure he won't be once he upgrades his distro in a year and the drivers have not been updated and stop working.
If you don't care about open source drivers, why not just install windows and be done with it?
Quote of the week Posted May 17, 2012 11:47 UTC (Thu) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]
So running all free software except for the printer driver is the same as running OSX or Windows? By that logic you should also install one of those, unless you use coreboot.
Quote of the week Posted May 23, 2012 2:29 UTC (Wed) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link]
Firstly, nice strawman. Firmware != software.
It's a slippery slope. Saying proprietary drivers is fine lands you in the situation of having code of unknown quality running in your kernel. Thats where most drivers run.
Then yes, you may as well run OSX or Windows -- at least they have compliance programs which help somewhat.
And if you start to depend on proprietary drivers, and have no philosophical problem with them, what is the problem with running OSX or Windows?
Proprietary drivers in a free system kinda of defeats the purpose of the free part. Upgrade some part of the free and closed part stops working.
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