Lexmark Spyware

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:42 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Lexmark has been a pioneer in the printer industry, doing things in
> hardware to insure that the printers don't work with third party
> consumables. ?It's really too bad as their printers are technically
> excellent, and they even provide(d) Linux drivers for several of their
> printers. ?Unfortunately their actions have insured that I will never buy
> or recommend their printers to our customers.
>
> Another company that pisses me off is Symantec with TurboTax. ?I have to
> remember to dismount the external 120gb hard drive and shut down NFS mounts
> on my Apple G4 before doing TurboTax on-line software updates because it
> searches all mounted file systems ``gathering information''. ?This can tak

Did Symantec buy TurboTax?  Or is that Intuit...?.  (whom I gave up on long 
ago)


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         11/13/04 18:34  +
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