August Abolins wrote in a message to Jay Emrie:

 AA> What I find rather disgraceful of Lexmark though is their recent
 AA> lawsuit citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against a
 AA> company that manufactures circuitry to render expended cartridges
 AA> reusable for us.

Yeah.

 AA> Anyway.. it's quite intriguing that Lexmark is deliberately
 AA> attempting to foil 3rd-party developers in develop replacement
 AA> products.  And all it takes a little bit of benign electronic
 AA> circuitry.  I wouldn't like a car manufacturer to tell me that I
 AA> can only use a specific brand of tire or a specific brand of gas. 

I wonder if things are headed that way?  After all,  this technology has a
history of big corporations trying to get people locked into brand-specific
or othewise proprietary stuff,  has had for ages.  It didn't work with the
early pc clones,  it didn't work with copy-protection on software,  and
it's not going to work with this,  either.  I'll buy some other brand of
printer...

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