Felony Contempt of Business Model: Lexmark's Anti-Competitive Legacy
By Cory Doctorow
In 2002, Lexmark was one of the leading printer companies in the world. A division of IBM—the original tech giant—Lexmark was also a pioneer in the now-familiar practice of locking customers in to expensive "consumables," like the carbon powder that laser-printers fuse to paper to produce printouts.
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