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Open source printer with refillable ink, no bullshit, accept rolls of papers.

Finally an open source printer ! I dealt with so much stupidity with printers. it warm my heart.

I do have too much joy to practice mandatory critical thinking about the release of a new project. Lets talk about it? i am not the only one to be happy about it, i have no info about the price though :/

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[–] genchu@sakurajima.social 1 points 1 day ago

@Augmented1207@feddit.org @AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net their point is that commercial restrictions go against both the Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement as layed out by both of their definitions and it's harmful for several reasons (see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html)

sit with the thought for a moment, what if the GNU operating system or the Linux kernel, etc.. had a commercial restriction on them, there would be more complications then, and the physical copies made by other distributions wouldn't be made, and so on