On Thursday 31 July 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Thursday 31 July 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Jon Pruente [email protected]
wrote:
Wait, what? I'm pretty sure it started with Leo mentioning a desire to give an HP printer away to one, but could not find drivers to use on their old P2 running Win98...
The original post from Oren Beck:
On Saturday 26 July 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
I was going to donate a HP printer to the arts center I'm volunteering for, but the computer they have right now is a PII-233Mhz machine running Windows98. This turns out to be a sticking point which prevents the printer from being useful to them, as I don't have the original Windows driver CD.
So when you said,
"Isn't that the original post of this thread? ;)"
You didn't actually mean the original post of the thread, you meant the post somewhere in the middle of the thread as I pointed out here:
"No, actually, the original post was Oren comparing the discontinuance of vendor support for decade old software with Digital Rights Management. The charity came in as a hypothetical somewhere... back there... *points up at the thread*"
Is that right?
Nope. Feel free to put a timestamp on your citation. Leo's post started this thread.
While I appreciate that they're wanting to, I can only assume, save money by not purchasing something made in the 21st century, this smells like mismanagement to me. If the technology choices they make prevent them from doing their job, then they're not a charity I would want distributing my money.
Perhaps their business software, used for doing their job, is still DOS-based. Certainly, Windows 2000 had a decent DOS emulator, but it wasn't perfect. Windows 98 is the best choice for this type of application, if a GUI is wanted.
Perhaps you'd be willing to invest some of your time, charitably, of course, in setting them up with a Linux system (or even a new Windows system) that can help them effectively manage incoming contributions and distribute them to those in need.
DOS applications can be just as effective as Linux or Win32 applications.