It's that time of the year again, the bitter sweet process of making resolutions.
These resolutions typically are about change that is difficult, but we decided to start with an easy one. The obvious advantage is that you won't feel like a failure when you don't do the more difficult ones.
Continue not to buy Hewlett-Packard products is such an easy, success guaranteed resolution.
For new readers, we invite you to go back a year and see how we bitched about HP chips on printer cartridges as a game of evil monopoly. Sure, we can understand the rationale for doing things the new HP way: money.
But as in other areas of life, not everything you can do is advisable in a social context. On the bright side, there is enough choice in home printers, so the resolution is not a burden. The same turned out to be true for the new computer that replaced the ancient Dell earlier this year, walking past the HP computers in the store was no effort at all.
Of course, we won't go as far as investigating if any device is using some OEM version of something HP, has licenced a patent from them and so forth.
For our limited version of "no HP", we go by the box. If the box doesn't say Hewlett-Packard, we are satisfied.
[Update] Looks like we are not the only ones. HP is laying off more people than planned - or previously copped on to - in order to please the shareholders. Well done.
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