OT: Court rules against Lexmark in printer case

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>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...

On a related MOT -- I saw an article this morning about people going after
HP for putting drop- dead times in their printer cartridges (e.g. they
won't work after a certain date regardless of whether they've been used).

Bill
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