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Build products for consumers, not against them.
Although, on second thought, I guess I was never going to buy a Keurig in the first place; producing a ton of trash in exchange for expensive mediocre coffee was enough to convince me it was a bad idea?
For a single cup of coffee, I'm partial to the AeroPress. It takes a bit more work, but the strange looks I get from my coworkers is worth it.
The Aeropress is better than all of those hands down.
Another solution is to not buy Keurig machines.
Yeah, I'm gradually coming around to an RMS-y way of thinking – having to tape small bits of an old K-cup onto my Keurig 2.0 is DRM bullshit that I have no room for in my life. Fuck them. Some people will use the new Keurig and its DRMed cups because it provides them with enough value. I will completely bypass this nonsense and make a DRM-free cup of dirt cheap coffee that stimulates my senses, as outlined in another…
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The real joke is using DRM to prevent competition. Printer companies have also been doing this.
Printer companies have tried doing this. IIRC, they lost in court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control...
What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
Yeah! We should find these engineers who might have families and shame them to the world! They'll never work in this town again after they traded in their scruples for a few bucks. In other news, I'm excited to announce my social dating startup just got acquired for a bunch of money! We'll be deleting all the data and shutting down.
For a single cup of coffee, I'm partial to the AeroPress. It takes a bit more work, but the strange looks I get from my coworkers is worth it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real joke is using DRM to prevent competition. Printer companies have also been doing this.
Printer companies have tried doing this. IIRC, they lost in court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int%27l_v._Static_Cont...
where the courts ended up rejecting Lexmark's theory that a particular way of making refilled cartridges work with Lexmark printers violated the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions.
However, you could still say that the printer companies are succeeding in using DRM to prevent competition (to some extent), even if it's difficult for them to sue companies like Static Control for circumvention.