Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: PC Express Keywords: breaking the licence? Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 89 15:56:41 GMT Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 33 While in the university PC lab, someone came down wanted some software configured for their new printer (an HP DeskJet Plus... note: not the laser printer). While configuring his disks, he mentioned that as soon as he gets a hard drive he won't need that configuration anymore because he'll be able "to add postscript" to his printer. Knowing something about the DeskJet Plus, I started questioning him. It seems that the people that sold him the printer also charged $50 for Ghostscript telling him that as soon as he gets a hard drive, it will make his DeskJet a postscript printer. Well, after explaining what PostScript is I explained what GhostScript does (not mentioning the GNU licence, etc). He told me that he didn't get the source code (well, he didn't know what source code is, so I don't expect him to know if he REALLY got it or not). The vender's name is "PC Express" and they adveritise in The New York Times (that's all the info I got out of him). Is this place Doing The Right Thing? ...or am I completely in Copyleft field? -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Author of ERP -- The Exec Replacement Project: "We'll get rid of that bothersome multitasking once and for all!" (Project will start as soon as I have some free time... really it will! :-) :-) ;-)