Re: HP and Linux in France

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

James Love wrote:

> Roberto Di Cosmo <Roberto.Di.Cosmo@ens.fr> wrote me with this
> interesting pointer to an HP page on the use of Linux in higher
> education in France.  Professor Di Cosmo is the leading Microsoft critic
> in France, and is working directly on an initiative to promote Linux in
> French schools.
>
> http://hpwww.ec-lyon.fr/hpeduc/Education/offre/Linux/educ_linux.html
>
> --
> James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
> P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
> 202.387.8030; f 202.234.5176
> http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love@cptech.org

Maybe Prof. Di Cosmo could use his influence with HP to convince them to
release the specs for their "Win Printers" so that proper Linux drivers
could be written for them.  I have an HP DeskJet 820Cse (bought before I
began using LInux) and the only driver available for it was hacked and is
only semi-functional.