Lexmark Z645 Printer

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 3:03:48 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 02 December 2007, Mike Leone wrote:
> > David McGlone wrote:
> > > her that her printer wouldn't work because Lexmark is shady.
> >
> > Lexmark is not "shady". They just design their products and software for
> > an OS that you don't use. You don't have to like, or approve of their
> > choices. But don't call them shady just because their products don't
> > work in Linux.
>
> I agree with your position in general, and I wouldn't use the term "shady"
> either.  However, the printer I wrestled with actually had Tux printed
> right on the box, and that was pretty deceptive of them.  It came with an
> old binary driver for a version of Red Hat that was obsolete at the time of
> purchase, and that was all they felt they needed to do to claim "Works with
> Linux" prominently.
>
> I wouldn't go as far as shady, but I thought they had misappropriated poor
> Tux for sure.  I didn't do my homework on that one, and got burned.
>
> I hope they're no longer printing Tux on their boxes.

You too? Wouldn't you call this shady? I do.

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David M.