North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @11:37AM from the state-poking-at-dmca? dept.

ngrier writes "Seems that at least some aren't sitting idly by, while printer manufacturers try to assert total control. The North Carolina legislature just approved a measure which guarantees the consumer's right to refill ink cartridges. For history of the Lexmark DMCA-related story, involving the company placing copyright-protected code in their printer cartridges in order to prevent competitors from producing compatible cartridges, there are previous Slashdot posts about it here(1), here(2), and here(3)."

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Re:Let's do it with Apple! by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · 2003-07-16 12:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ever heard of competition? Thought not. Mac troll.
I guess you have never heard of the compaq BIOS reverse engineering that started the whole x86 PC platform. (Yes, started it, because without out this reverse engineering, x86 would have never been remotely popular like it is today)

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