Epson R210 and Ubuntu Hoary

I bought an Epson R210 inkjet printer yesterday, and it worked fine after an upgrade from Ubuntu Warty to Ubuntu Hoary.

However, in the process I came across the quite pleasing site of the Epson Kowa Corporation, complete with very frequent Linux driver releases and a not-entirely-vacuous company profile. Before downloading the driver, I was presented with a web page asking for acceptance of their licensing terms: a combination of GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, and Epson Kowa Public License. I was astonished to find that the tarball of their CUPS driver was the real deal: a source tarball built with automake, autoconf and libtool, and containing a beautiful mess of GNUish artefacts: AUTHORS, various COPYING files, a generic INSTALL file, a ChangeLog that hadn't been updated since 2002 and a zero-length NEWS file. Truly beautiful software from a company with real clue ;-)