The FSF Has Certified A USB To Parallel Printer Cable For Respecting Your Freedom

[tildearrow]

Actually the RYF certification process explicitly forbids RYF'ing a product that also advertises "Works with Mac" or "Works with Windows", so generally, most any manufacturer hoping to sell a lot of hardware would avoid RYF from the start.

Where's my freedom to use the cable under Windows?

[andyprough]

Actually the RYF certification process explicitly forbids RYF'ing a product that also advertises "Works with Mac" or "Works with Windows", so generally, most any manufacturer hoping to sell a lot of hardware would avoid RYF from the start.

You said "hoping to sell a lot of hardware", I did not. I said if "there is a customer with a need". Two very different situations.

I agree - anyone looking to get rich in the present culture would explicitly sell to Mac and Windows users, but the distributor selling these items, ThinkPenguin, does not do that. They've been getting stuff certified by FSF for a long time, and I'll bet they know the needs of their customer base pretty well.

[Bsdisbetter]

No manufacturer or distributor is going to bother to go through the certification process unless there is a customer with a need. So, what is silly to you is important to someone else. I find it amusing that anyone would ever complain about free and open hardware.

I find it funny people need it to be 'certified' by some foundation...

[Michael]

No manufacturer or distributor is going to bother to go through the certification process unless there is a customer with a need. So, what is silly to you is important to someone else. I find it amusing that anyone would ever complain about free and open hardware.

Actually the RYF certification process explicitly forbids RYF'ing a product that also advertises "Works with Mac" or "Works with Windows", so generally, most any manufacturer hoping to sell a lot of hardware would avoid RYF from the start.

[andyprough]

This is the latter.

No manufacturer or distributor is going to bother to go through the certification process unless there is a customer with a need. So, what is silly to you is important to someone else. I find it amusing that anyone would ever complain about free and open hardware.

[dos1]

Can this parallel port cable actually address individual pins or does it just show up in the system as USB printer? If it's the former, then it's actually way more useful than how you paint it.

[Bsdisbetter]

They do both good and silly things.

This is the latter.

[Michael]

Why do I get the impression that Michael Larabel finds the FSF ridiculous?

They do both good and silly things.

[flashmozzg]

Does it use the free HW? Did they sample the chips? Using a free software is not enough to guarantee it's not phoning to Beijing.

[eltomito]

Why do I get the impression that Michael Larabel finds the FSF ridiculous?