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Re: The end of QTR?

2019-10-02 by roy@...

I've played with signing and notarizing. Had mixed results but fortunately its still ok
to have neither and still get programs installed. Who knows when that will stop
working. I think I've figured the separation of system/data thing and its not a big
problem. But there's talk and rumors of NO printer drivers sometime in the future.
I really don't know what that means. Maybe printers will need to take PDFs directly.
That would preclude QTR driver doing something differently. So far I really don't know.
Basically to secure everything on an OS you have to disallow system level third party code.

Even now there's a new protocol for Pro printers but it happens that they still
accept old protocol. Epson could drop that any time. There's no documentation
on the new protocol.

Roy

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