>>>https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out
>>>How perverse is that thinking: that if a customer buys an HP product, but not HP consumables, then the *customer* is somehow a "bad investment"? WTAF?
>>>H and P didn't build their company on that kind of attitude. I, for one, remember when HP was justifiably admired.
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>>That was when, last time? Twenty years ago, at least, in my experience.
>My first programming was on an RPN-based HP 29C, so I'll always have a soft spot for what HP used to be - but that was around 1978. They had some good, even great product in later years but yeah,

>>seems like the marketers and beancounters started taking over around the turn of the century.
Yes. They were led by Carly Fiorina who led the Compaq acquisition.