HP seems to listen

Posted by wjl on Mar 30, 2006 1:27 PM EDT
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On last year’s Linuxtag I was bugging some HP staff about the laptops they planned to offer without the usual Redmond tax. Plus I did so later on the phone. On this weblog, I asked why they cancelled producing and selling our Deskjet 6840 printer without further notice. Plus I asked more or less all hardware vendors to increase their support for free (libre) and open source software.

Maybe I wasn’t the only one, because first results are to be seen. Which means that today, in Germany, you can buy HP laptops just with (Free-)DOS, for instance at Germany’s biggest retail shop, here and here. Plus they offer a nice and almost identical replacement for our printer now: the new DeskJet 6980 WLAN.

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