Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
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Please boost.
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired
@till thanks to your hard work, my printers always worked better than they ever did on windows even as far back as from the Mandrake Linux days.
Full disclosure: I even stole ( shamelessly ) from your src.rpm to create the hplip rpm for Conectiva Linux 10 ( back in 2004 ) 😉
Edit: I did credited you on the comments on my .spec file though 😉
@gnemmi And MandrakeSoft rectified it by merging with Conectiva ...
And these packages (including the packaging) are free software anyway ... For me it is a sign that I did a great HPLIP package ...
@till yup. Conectiva 10 was the last Conectiva release before Mandrake bought it. Hplip didn't make the cut in the final release so I had to create an rpm as an external contrib.
And, yes, your hplip rpm package was: impeccable!!.
Thank you for all your hard work over the last 3 decades!
* Mon Jun 06 2005 Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi <caleb@linuxdicas.com.br> - added add/remove hpaio backend to the sane.d/dll.conf file (Thanks goes to Till Kampeter and his Mandriva hplip.spec)
Till Kamppeter
Gonzalo Nemmi 