> basic infosec hygiene that would be unacceptable for open source maintainers
Opensource printer stack is a legacy mess. There is critical vulnerability almost every year. There are not enough money or developers to fix that!
Opensource printer stack is a legacy mess. There is critical vulnerability almost every year. There are not enough money or developers to fix that!
Not affiliated, just happy user, at least some companies seem to be able to deal with it, regardless if it's open source (my stack) or not (my wife's Apple-stack).
But I did some research before buying (including here on HN) and Brother printers were praised for being reliable and having no problems with Linux drivers.
But this process is still ongoing and lazy hardware vendors will continue to be lazy in their switch, if they have the option.
I don't necessarily disagree, but isn't this because of extremely bad firm/soft/hardware design by the printer companies that then have to be supported by the open source stack?
Maybe true, but no live trojans either, so it's ahead of the game already as I see it.