Hey again,
It's offical. The mandrake folks have their hot little hands on Lexmark winprinter (Z11,12,13) drivers. http://www.cups.org/links.php?V33 Wouldn't I like to have a copy of it - but bloody commercial licensing - I thought I wouldn't have to go near anything like "warez" again. I don't think my virtual stallman will be happy about me getting this driver via any means possible. This reminds me of the time before neomagic had XWindows support - I went out and bought Xaccel 6.1 from Xig only to find out that 3 months later a semi decent XFree version came out. Luke Luke McKee wrote: > Hi Slugsters, > > I made the unfortunate mistake of geting a winprinter - and before you > all slag me telling me I shouldn't have and it'll never work..... > > I found a suggestion that Mandrake 8.1/8.2 comes with a commerical > Lexmark drivers package on one of it's commerical installation CDs. At > this stage I would like to verify this. As I bought the printer - I > feel a nice someone could send me the drivers in binary form - because > I've licensed them in a way (by buying a "paperweight"). > > The drivers arn't available because they are not GPLed and lexmark > doesn't want to release the source. Therefore linux vendors can't > offer it "free" without commercial license like everything else in > their download packages. So if lexmark want's to release the drivers > only in binary form they wil have to support them right? and that's > just too much for a $30USD printer. Sigh. > > Here's the link that rumors that these drivers exist: > http://pghlinux.bravepages.com/linux-z22.html > > Here are some comments from lexmark why they are not giving the > drivers out for free: > http://mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=545&lang=en > > Has anyone had any success with the user contributed Z13 and lexmark > offical drivers on a Z12? > > Cheers, > > Luke > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
