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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company's CEO,

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[–] silverbax@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Buy Brother, better printers without all this subscription garbage.
How long before an 'open source' printer hots the market and terrifies this idiot CEO?

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If he hasn't been scared by Xerox, Brother, and Epson, he won't be scared by a FLOSS printer. At this point, the only people who buy HP printers are those who don't even google it and remember hearing the laserjets were good circa 1995.

[–] silverbax@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe so, but there are people who aren't scared of bears and get mauled to death. If he really is that dumb he won't hear the impending doom.

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