OT: Court rules against Lexmark in printer case

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Tue Feb 22 14:40:30 PST 2005


It appears that Lexmark lost in its attempt to use the DMCA to
prevent others from making low-cost printer cartridges.

	http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=BC6ABD:1F2C549

This is marginally on-topic because, for a while, Lexmark was one
of the few printer companies that supplied Linux drivers for
their inkjet printers.

Bill
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