[sugar] [Server-devel] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

[Luke Faraone]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:36, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Personally, I am on Yama's side on this one, if only for environmental
> reasons. (Although it would be great if someone could design a
> solar-powered printer where the toner was simply locally ground-up
> charcoal.) But a technical solution whereby some enterprising
> Bolivia--the next Marcelo Claure--can set up their own Kinko's-like
> service would be perhaps a nice compromise. Marvin Minsky once said:
> "Some day paper will be a luxury item for the rich." But in the
> meantime, let's enable local entrepreneurship.
>

Not to mention, sugar should also target more developed nations, and one of
the questions I _always_ get from teachers at talks I give is "Can I
print?".

-lf
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