Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End 431
Adama writes "Lexmark is dead in the water with their hopes to use the DMCA to force their customers to buy their over-priced toner. Their request for another hearing has been denied. Ars has
an especially great write-up on this." (See this earlier story for more background on Lexmark's lock-in attempt.)
Re:unfortunately.... (Score:3, Funny)
Outsourced to India, with everything else.
"Opensource" Ink formula (Score:4, Funny)
Then we will be free of these greedy companies. How far have we gone with the opensource BIOS?
Re:Common people: 1, Fritz Hollings: nill. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Besides, I'm an engineer - I have no natural sense of humor.
(I've also been working on an NT-4 server all day, which is enough to impair anyone's sense of humor.)
Lexmark is good for the environment (Score:2, Funny)
So you see, they were doing all this for the good of the environment, not to lock people into their products.............and if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale. email me.
tree farms (Score:5, Funny)
I for one, only use paper from free-range rainforests.
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
It gives me the serious creeps like im being watched or something when I print a document and the robot voice kicks in "Printing has started" or "Failed to communicate with printer".... im waiting for it to say "Don't look behind you".
Re:Ripoff Pricing.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Remember when printers were really expensive? (Score:3, Funny)
Clearly Lexmark didn't realize... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Those things are HUGE! (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, you were in the wrong store. What you were looking at was a "car". Laser printers are in aisle six.