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Oddly enough, the original inspiration for GNU was a proprietary printer control program that upset RMS enough that he decided to start a revolution. You'd thi
by SwellJoe 12y ago
Oddly enough, the original inspiration for GNU was a proprietary printer control program that upset RMS enough that he decided to start a revolution.
You'd think somebody would be working on that. Printers are so evil, in general, that I try very, very, very, hard to avoid them entirely. I've been known to take a picture of my signature and edit it in GIMP and paste it into a document in order to avoid using a printer to print/sign something.
- psykovsky 12y agoI do work for a record label where artists sometimes do stuff like that, take a photo of their signature and use Paint to add it to the contracts. The guys at the office get mad. They want them to print it, sign it, scan it and send it back. Oh, well...
- literalusername 12y agoAny intentional mark is a legally valid signature. It doesn't matter what tool is used to make the mark, be it a computer, a muddy twig, or anything else. The established legality of electronic signatures is the reason why we have HelloSign.
- psykovsky 12y agoTried to exhaustion to convince them. I've given up. They're like tied up to that specific process and nothing will change their mind, not even reason it seems.
- SwellJoe 12y agoI was flabbergasted when someone expected me to send them a fax a few weeks ago. I unintentionally responded really rudely; I was just so surprised, expletives were the result.
- marcosdumay 12y agoEverybody avoids them. That may be the reason why nobody bothered to fight proprietary printer drivers. Just shortly after RMS created GNU, business all around the world started doing initiatives to abolish printers. Yes, they failed, but you can't expect vanguardist people to want to work on them.