From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:30:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB158106567A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC9C8FC1A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so1784234wwc.31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.49.212 with SMTP id x62mr9845556web.55.1285111801652; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.137.234 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [69.91.158.134] In-Reply-To: <20100921144329.62d6b50b@scorpio> References: <20100921144329.62d6b50b@scorpio> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:01 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:30:03 -0000 I think conspiracy theories miss the point. The reason more printers work on Windows than on FreeBSD is if you don't support Windows, you can't sell printers to 92% of computer users. This is an extremely powerful incentive to spend money on writing Windows drivers. The financial incentive is not really there to spend time writing drivers for FreeBSD. There just aren't enough FreeBSD users who will buy your printer to pay for it. It's simple market economics, unfortunately.