Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

[Christopher J. Ruwe]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400
Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT)
> Robert Bonomi articulated:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net>
> > pontificated:
> > >
> > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.
> > > My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the
> > > local pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those
> > > best able to supply them, the OEM.
> > 
> > "I am just going to reply to this one point because it is where
> > you(sic) entire argument breaks down."
> > 
> > That attitude is entirely acceptable for _your_ decision making.
> > Asserting that nobody else shoul(sic) have any other alternatives to
> > what you think is 'acceptable' is downright fascist.
> 
> Who, or is it whom you choose to be your supplier is entirely a
> decision you have to make based on your needs and desires. My point is
> that anyone offering such products should be to some degree held
> legally responsible to their worth. A "Fly by Night" operation is
> totally unacceptable to me. If you find it acceptable then so be it.
> Remember the adage: "You get what you pay for."
> 
> By the way, calling me a Fascist when a significant number of users
> of Open Source are socialist is rather funny.
> 

From a point of view a political sciences theorist might assume, fascism and socialism are not that far apart. Both need to abolish individual liberties quite soon. Which is what you seem to claim ... abolish the right of the individual to make contracts based on his/her terms.

BTW, I do not believe that many open source users would accept a
serious decline of their civil and legal liberty. So I do not believe
many are really more than cherry-picking socialists, even if calling
oneself socialist is somehow en vogue. We could debate anarchism,
though, ... ;-)

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Christopher J. Ruwe
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