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HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I can’t explain it either but it happened with 2 different CD-ROM devices until I put in an HP model one. The GPU could’ve just been a random thing, but the CD-ROM was a pretty weird coincidence. Trust me, it made no fucking sense to me either, but it’s only ever happened to me with that HP tower and I’ve built a handful of PCs myself. If someone had a better explanation (2 faulty non-HP drives in a row?), I’d accept that too.

For context, this was probably around 2001 or 2002.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Do someone else's point. HP does have a custom BIOS they develop themselves.

Not sure about GPUs and desktops, but they did lock out all but specific wireless adapters in the laptops. This was done in the custom BIOS.