Richard Stallman invented free software because printers were shitty. Now we have free software that run on rockets, but the printers are still shitty.
@Sylvhem Jolie blague :3
@floreal Merci (^ω^).
@Sylvhem They really are evil...
@Ambraven Absolutely.
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haha @rms@gnusocial.no
@Sylvhem I would probably trade one of my bodily organs for a printer with semi-working FLOSS firmware. The first vendor to do this will have my eternal devotion but I'm not holding my breath waiting.
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More than a year later, and it is still so true…
RMS, unable to debug a printer driver: "I will rid the world of this curse that is proprietary software!"
RMS, forty years later: "Turns out printer are just evil. Sorry everyone, my mistake."