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There's no conspiracy, it's all in the incentive. Existing open source software was all pretty much designed to run on existing hardware. Free and open print s

by yock 15y ago

There's no conspiracy, it's all in the incentive. Existing open source software was all pretty much designed to run on existing hardware. Free and open print specifications and interfaces couldn't run on existing hardware, and hardware R&D sort of requires substantial financial investment. It isn't really in the realm of your average hacker in his dimly lit home office at 3AM. Hopefully the success of projects like Arduino will make free and open hardware standards a thing of the very near future, someday enabling us to develop complex machines using unencumbered hardware standards, but like you pointed out that just isn't today's reality. The blog post describes an ambitious undertaking, and I think that's a good thing. It really is something that feels long overdue, given how obviously exploitive the current SOHO printing market is currently.

masklinn 15y ago
> There's no conspiracy, it's all in the incentive. That's the subject of my comment, but I'm sure somebody will assert a conspiracy by "Big Printing". > The blog post describes an ambitious undertaking The blog post does not describe anything, the blog post asserts that 1. somebody should design and manufacture open-source printing hardware 2. Sprinkle fairy dust, rainbows and unicorns 3. Everything is awesome And the starting point is mostly that TFAA thinks hardware is too expensive and obtaining counterfeit consumables is a pain.
- yock 15y ago
  The blog post asserts that these standards should exist, lists some non-obvious things that will need to be developed by someone, and makes a case for their potential profitability, albeit a weak one I'll grant you. I don't understand why you're taking such a negative attitude with the suggestion. Not every blog post on the world-wide web is written with the intention of outlining the solution to the described problem, unless that's really what you're taking issue with.

by yock 15y ago

masklinn 15y ago

> There's no conspiracy, it's all in the incentive. That's the subject of my comment, but I'm sure somebody will assert a conspiracy by "Big Printing". > The blog post describes an ambitious undertaking The blog post does not describe anything, the blog post asserts that 1. somebody should design and manufacture open-source printing hardware 2. Sprinkle fairy dust, rainbows and unicorns 3. Everything is awesome And the starting point is mostly that TFAA thinks hardware is too expensive and obtaining counterfeit consumables is a pain.

yock 15y ago
The blog post asserts that these standards should exist, lists some non-obvious things that will need to be developed by someone, and makes a case for their potential profitability, albeit a weak one I'll grant you. I don't understand why you're taking such a negative attitude with the suggestion. Not every blog post on the world-wide web is written with the intention of outlining the solution to the described problem, unless that's really what you're taking issue with.