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North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark
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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Sorry for the OT post, but nice Rusted Root sig.
+ G to tha Izzo, A to tha Tizee, Talking Giz-oat, Ya'll Bettah Feel Me... +
Just like you've failed everything you ever tried!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered "*BSD is dying" troll
community when IDC confirmed that "*BSD is dying" market share has dropped yet again,
now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of
all trolls. Coming on the heels of a recent Sporks 'R Us survey which plainly states
that "*BSD is dying" has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. "*BSD is dying" is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last
in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive troll test.
You don't need to
be a Vulcan to predict the future
of the "*BSD is dying" troll. The hand writing is on the wall: the "*BSD is dying" troll
faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the "*BSD is dying" troll because the "*BSD is dying" troll is
dying!. Things are looking very
bad for "*BSD is dying" trolls. As many of us are already aware, "*BSD is dying" continues
to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
"FreeBSD is dying" is the
most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its core trolls to the GNAA community. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
"FreeBSD is dying" trolls developers Anonymous Coward and Mike Smith only serve to
underscore the point
more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: "FreeBSD is dying" trolls are dying.
Let's
keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
"OpenBSD is dying" troll Theo states that there
are 7000 trolls actively posting "OpenBSD is dying" trolls. How many trolls pushing "NetBSD
is dying" are there? Let's see. The number of
"OpenBSD is dying" versus "NetBSD is dying" posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1.
Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 "NetBSD is dying" trolls. "BSD/OS is dying" posts on Usenet are
about half of the volume of "NetBSD is dying" posts. Therefore there are about 700 trolls
of "BSD/OS is dying" variety. A recent article put
"FreeBSD is dying" at about 80 percent of the "*BSD is dying" market.
Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 =
36400 "FreeBSD is dying" trolls. This is consistent with the number of "FreeBSD is dying" Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal attempts at first post and so on,
"FreeBSD is dying" trolls cease to exist and have been in fact converted to GNAA trolls.
All major surveys show that "*BSD is dying" posts have steadily declined in
posting share. "*BSD is dying" is very sick and
its long term survival prospects are very dim. If "*BSD is dying" is to survive at all it will
be because of a last hour bailout by the GNAA community. "*BSD is dying" continues to decay.
Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes,
"*BSD is dying" is dead.
Fact: "*BSD is dying" is dying.
The GNAA, IN SOVIET RUSSIA, and "Stephen King is dead" raiders are already rushing in to take
first posts, moderator status, and all other benefits the "*BSD is dying" trolls formerly
had.
Fortunately, I hit the karma cap back when there WAS a cap, so your AC mutterings do not reach my lofty ears.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Thank you very much... I will pass this information on.
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