A modest proposal for proprietary drivers - little OT

[Juan Kawada]

I would definitely sign if you got this up and running, and I'd also try to
get my friends to sign.

Also, your English is fine, don't worry about it.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Scott <slewin at bmts.com> wrote:

> John Pierce wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Valter Mura <valtermura at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> as I'm very tired to "fight" against Companies that produce the hardware
> (I
> >> mean, above all, devices such as printers, scanners, and so on) "almost"
> >> or "exclusively" for Windows and Mac, I thought it could be useful to
> open a
> >> signature collection for all Linux users, let's say, in the world.
> >> The goal is to make a general petition to the big sisters of the world
> (such
> >> as Canon, HP, Epson, Lexmark, Kodak, etc., the more you know, the more
> will
> >> be) to write "at least" drivers also for Linux and ship the with the
> >> products.
> >> I think that, if we collect our strength in thousands of signatures,
> they will
> >> be compelled to listen to us, one day.
> >> I wonder why I have still have to search a printer in the Linux database
> (very
> >> good work, by the way) to know if my actual printer or the next I will
> buy
> >> works "perfectly, mostly, good, badly" and so on.
> >> The idea is not to make a petition for one product only, but all
> products to
> >> come starting from now on.
> Already, I have always asked companies when I can to have Linux support
> and I only purchase computer equipment from companies that support
> Linux.  These are the two most important ways to get companies to change
> and I am willing to help out as I can.
>
> --
> Your friend,
> Scott
>
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