this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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The biggest issue I see is that most of the tech is someone's IP. If it's not patented, it's copyrighted or trademarked. Otherwise, it should be a doable PoC with old parts and a barebones firmware. I don't need my FOSS printer to contend with Xerox, I just need it to poop out a page when I hit print.
I'd also love to see a FOSS page description language that could dethrone Adobe's PostScript and HP's PCL as the standards.