Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:15:16 -0800 | From | Ben Ford <> | Subject | Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... |
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Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
>> Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print >> engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers? >> Can Alpha users get this print system working? Can Sparc uses >> get it working? What? I can't? They can't? Well, its no good to >> me nor them. You've just made the system x86 specific. Well done, >> thats a step backwards, not forwards. > > > Just out of curiosity, why can't the specification be along the lines of a > vendor data file saying ``if you want the printer to do x then say y'' and > ``if the printer says x then it means y''. That ought to add a lot of > functionality right there. Sure there are evil winprinters that this > wouldn't be enough for but it would be hardware independant, yes?
isn't that what windows *.INF files do? (don't flame me I'm not sure about it)
-b
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