[COMP] Re: a show of hands...

> > tell me about it.. i acquired one of the best colourprinters in the
> > world, the new Xerox M760 with usb (and parallell), but it isnt
> > supported by linux.. sigh. so i'll just use it with windows and hope
> > that a driver will soon be there. But I think it is very wrong of a
> > company not to release linux-drivers. (not for usb maybe, but at least
> > for the parallell port)
> 
> Does it understand Postscript?  If it does, you shouldn't have any trouble 
> getting it to
> work in Linux.
> 
> John
> 

Plus, driver source code sometimes gives away the architecture of the
hardware, which is key to there 'business secrets' and having a high-end
printer, I'm sure it has a lot of them.

-- 

James Gosnell
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