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Re:Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in... by gorgoiler on Friday January 31, 2025 @01:04AM (#42885070)
The origins of Free Software (or at least the GNU and GPL parts of the family tree) lie in this exact domain!

In the late 1970s Richard Stallman wanted to patch a faulty printer given to his by Xerox. They wouldn’t ship the source code though unless he signed an NDA:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

Oddly, the HN post above this one right now on the front page is about Xerox source code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884133

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Re:Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in... by AndrewOMartin on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:19AM (#42887358)
If you have two minutes...

Working on a Printer Paper Jam - Dylan Beattie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlWSOQ4cC4

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Re:Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in... by culi on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:17PM (#42935470)
Are there any open source printer projects out there? It doesn't seem like it should be too hard of a technology to crack considering we have stuff like the frame.work laptop
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