On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
Furthermore, the argument made by Chris does not hold water simply because the commercial developers have been paid to provide something, and anything paid for should come with some kind of warranty, not to mention ownership (or an equivalent license) of what has actually be paid for. Freeware, on the other hand, logically comes with absolutely no warranty.
Yeah, but Luke, we're talking about stuff that's a decade old. Warranties *do* end. And as Billy Crook points out in a later message, "any responsible printer owner has had ten years not to download copy of the drivers." Am I the only person who archives drivers until the hardware is gone?
What happens if someone wants to give their old HP printer to a charity still running Windows 98? Even if that someone had a copy of the 98 drivers, HP has said including those would be illegal...