Re: not-even-newbie printer question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Evans <peter@example.com> writes:

    Peter> Hmm, with the assumption that discrete chunks of software
    Peter> would be downloadable and installable, I suppose I reveal
    Peter> that I'm even more MS-brainwashed than I'd realized.

Oh, they should be.  Core Ghostscript development is oriented toward
the paying customers.  People who are smart _and_ well-funded enough
to pay for development general have a pretty good idea of what printer
they want to buy, so compiling it in ain't a big problem.  Peter
Deutsch told me he thought .so drivers would be cool -- but he doesn't
want to deal with cross-platform support (Ghostscript builds for more
platforms than even gcc!)

The only other major package I know of that isn't heading in the
direction of loadable modules for optional functionality or drivers is
... the whole GNU Project.  Because rms thinks they encourage people
to use non-free software.

CP/M-80, huh?  One of these days I'll type in Hendrix's Small-C
again....  That was such a revelation after BASIC and Fortran (and it
allowed me to compile my first free Lisp, ooh, cool)!

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