Lexmark Z645 Printer

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 9:15:20 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 02 December 2007, David McGlone wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You too? Wouldn't you call this shady? I do.
>
> Probably not shady, as long as the printer actually works with Red Hat
> Enterprise 0.3.2 with a 2.0.x series kernel, but definitely obnoxious and
> tricky.

Using deception to sell a product in my book is shady. Even though the printer 
worked with RH Enterprise, they never printed that. They gave, maybe not you, 
but me the impression that the printer worked with linux in general. I can't 
prove it, but I believe it was intentionally printed on the box that way, So 
that is why I believe they are shady.

My definition of "shady" is where I am walking that thin line between trusting 
Lexmark and not trusting them. In no way am I saying they make bad printers.

-- 
David M.

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