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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 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?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 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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