Lexmark Spyware

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>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)

You're right it was Intuit.  Symantec bought TimeLine, a project management
program that was the only thing that would make me willingly run Windows.
Unfortunately Symantec dropped support for it.

Bill
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