HP: pushing Samuel Vimes' "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness[1] to the limit. Printer A is $500 up front, printer B is $100, sounds like a great deal u

HP: pushing Samuel Vimes' "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness[1] to the limit. Printer A is $500 up front, printer B is $100, sounds like a great deal until you do the math and realize that it's designed to make you pay a lot more than $400 more in cryptographically-signed consumables over its lifetime. I'm sure there is a very nice big bonus waiting for the HP employee who can figure out a way to make a printer that only works with Genuine Authorized HP Paper as well as Genuine authorized HP Ink, and pitch it in a way the consumers will accept. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory