HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses

HP printers are a virus

Unsurprisingly, so is HP's CEO.

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My serious response: get yourself something nice, like a Brother B&W Laserprinter, with a TN-450 high-capacity toner cartridge. Mine is bulletproof, prints for years, doesn't GAF what brand cartridge you throw in its filthy little mouth.

Isn't the system that blocks the printer the thing that actually requires the cartridges to have sufficient electronics for a virus in the first place?

> Because every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We're investing [in] that customer...

Jerry Maguire: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

He's not the first AI-like CEO to hallucinate.

HP paid him to say that.

More like HP paid him and he tried to defend HP by saying that.