> there are no chances one can stick a HP cartridge into an Epson printer This is true, but printers are among the most poorly standardized items of PC hardwar

> there are no chances one can stick a HP cartridge into an Epson printer This is true, but printers are among the most poorly standardized items of PC hardware. There is a very good chance that you can remove a motherboard, processor, RAM stick, hard drive, graphics card, power supply, fan, or case from one computer manufacturer and use it with another. And while I agree that our economic system isn't helping in several ways, IBM PC standardization happened much closer in time to the red scare than anything EV related.