Re: w32 issues

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     GDI is an API developed by Microsoft. The real problem is not the API 
>     itself, but rather that GDI printers are exclusively accessible via a 
>     proprietary protocol. Therefore, GDI printers should actually be called 
>     "printers exclusively accessible via a proprietary protocol".
>
> Do these printers work only with Windows?

Some may do, but I think most work with CUPS and Ghostscript on 
GNU/Linux, either because the proprietary protocol is published by the 
manufacturer, or it has been reverse engineered. The above was a quote 
from SuSE's printing documentation (which they may have got from elsewhere).