Re: [Trisquel-users] Free hardware and open source and hp printers?

[svhaab]

Thanks. That means if you want to know if your printer is free hardware, then  
connect it to a trisquel computer? About the software, if the printer works  
on trisquel, then where does it come from? Trisquel will only use free  
software but hplip is not? Another thing is, if free software is made in  
opposition to non free software, then it is likely that the free software  
will not include surveillance features that the non free option may have. On  
windows I think hp software did what it could to send info about your hp  
printer to hp. If the hplip software, free software or open source, is  
produced by hp and there has been no independent audit, then how do you know  
if hp has not kept survaillance features in their printersoftware? They have  
an interest in keeping them in the hp software.