HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors::“Never own a printer again.”

  • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Oh, they also did the same thing with a nextcloud server. There was some plugin for word or something that they needed for their workflow. But they weren’t going pay the $10 for the plugin for every every user. So they licensed it for a few clerical admins (might even be the same as the printer people) and if you needed to share a file with a customer, you emailed it to them and they stuck it on the nextcloud server and emailed the customer.

    And another one is Zoom. Again, we had meeting admins with a paid zoom license. So if you wanted a meeting that wouldn’t get cut off after 40 minutes, you email the meeting admins and they would schedule it.