Lexmark Spyware

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:42:45PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 41 lines to write:
> 
> 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.

Lexmark lost on appeal, though, so there's some redress.

> 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 take
> a while if it tries scanning everything on a network.

Yes, that's odious.

Kurt
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