A major "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created." moment in the history of computers was when Robert Sproull refused to give Richard Stallman a copy of the Xerox laser printer source code so he could port it to the PDP-11.

There are a class of Bother and Sharp printers that are still kind of decent at scale but they are expensive to upkeep. I have had to deal with warehouses that had a shit ton of different types and there are some less shitty than others.