{"id":1594,"date":"2016-05-26T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2016-05-26T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:45:37","slug":"printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/05\/26\/printers\/","title":{"rendered":"Printers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRichard Stallman back in the\u00a0 late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer.<\/p>\n

Fourty years later people using software libero<\/em> still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos keeps arguing that the printer has low black ink (true!) and that there’s no paper (wrong!).<\/p>\n

The mysteries of software libero…. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Stallman back in the\u00a0 late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer. Fourty years later people using software libero still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos…<\/p>\n

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