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Subject: Re: What is the future for Linux?

Author: pavel

Date: 13:51:33 10/03/02

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On October 03, 2002 at 15:28:22, William H Rogers wrote:

>My company is a software provider, our own. I have been told by my MIS
>department that the newest version of Windows for business lacks any printer
>drivers and you have to purchase a new driver for each type of printer that you
>want to use. If this is so then I think it may be the straw that broke the
>camels back. In other words, I think that more and more people will switch and
>Windows is slowly on its way out. Bill (MS) wants to control too much.
>Bill

I have never heard that you have to "purchase drivers" to run printers, no
matter whatever printer that is, and no matter whatever MS OS that is.
It should come free either by the printer manufacturer or by the OS developer.

There have been instances of some printers not being compatible with early
versions of Winxp (service packs and updates should solve this problem), but
never heard that you have to buy drivers to run printers.
This sounds outragiously unbelievable to me.

Anyone else knows of such incident?

pavs



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