OT: Court rules against Lexmark in printer case

[Kurt Wall]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 14:40, Bill Campbell enlightened us thusly:
> 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.

Indeed, more than marginally on-topic because I specifically
purchased a Lexmark printer *because* of its Linux support (which
support still exists, I might add). 

I propose a new prefix for email that might be consider marginlly 
on-topic or marginally off-topic: MOT. It's one of those handy dual-use
abbreviations...

Kurt