[colug-432] Open Source Drivers

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 17:41:51 -0400, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Brother HL3170CDW color laser printer that works great with
> Linux.  In fact, it works great because the driver was provided by
> Brother.  The only thing I had to mess around with was the fact that
> ther RPM's are intended for OS's in the RHEL6 era, so I had to find
> some older compat libraries.  But they work with CentOS 7 and 8 just
> fine.

Congratulations on getting it to work.

I cringe whenever I have to download drivers for Linux from a manufacturer.
I try to avoid acquiring things that are not already supported with
open source drivers bundled with a Linux distro.

Were those drivers open source?