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DRM: Coming to a Coffee Maker Near You

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 03 2014, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Java-should-be-open dept.

r00t writes:

"Taking a page out of Lexmark playbook, the Keurig company, famous for it's one-cup coffee making system, now comes with new and improved 100% DRM. Apparently, Keurig is upset over re-usable third-party 'coffee pods' which allow the consumer to escape the Keurig throw-away models which carry a retail price 5% to 25% more. Keurig's CEO, Brian Kelly referred to the move as 'game-changing performance.' Perhaps this will finally be the year of Linux on the Coffe Maker?"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by zafiro17 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:55AM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:55AM (#10547) Homepage

    Epson and HP are also fully in the "sell cheap device than gouge on the cartridges" model. Epson print cartridges now hold less ink than they did ten years ago - forced obsolescence. Razor blade makers: same thing.

    Consumer: Stick to the basics and you'll never be screwed. I shave with an "old fashioned" safety razor. The Germans make some fantastic ones. Blades last for months, don't jam up with cut hairs, and a pack of 10 blades costs me about $2. The modern cartridges cost more than per cartridge.

    Print cartridges: I don't have an easy solution there. Buy laser, maybe. Or don't print. But hell, it's a rip-off out there.

    Coffee: Jesus people, you need a special machine with unique cartridges? Buy coffee, grind it, put it in a French Press, drink, enjoy, and when the caffeine high wears off, laugh your ass all the way to the bank. ("Oh, but the cartridges are so much ***easier*** wowzers!!!!1111elevenety). Go for it then - one of you is born every minute.

    Now get the hell offa my lawn.

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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:50AM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:50AM (#10692)

    Jesus people, you need a special machine with unique cartridges? Buy coffee, grind it, put it in a French Press, drink, enjoy, and when the caffeine high wears off, laugh your ass all the way to the bank. ("Oh, but the cartridges are so much ***easier*** wowzers!!!!1111elevenety). Go for it then - one of you is born every minute.

    Pfft, you go to the store and BUY coffee? Walk to Colombia, squat some land, grow your own coffee, steal a donkey, harvest it in baskets you wove by hand, grind it between two stones, make pots out of clay, build a fire, brew, drink, enjoy with your new pal John McAfee, pick the grounds out of your teeth, and when the smugness wears off, laugh your ass all the way to the bank. ("Oh, but buying coffee from stores so much ***easier*** wowzers!!!!1111elevenety)

    My lawn - you know what to do.

  • (Score: 1) by meisterister on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:36AM

    by meisterister (949) on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:36AM (#13126)

    Alrighty then. As the rest of you are battling your fancy printers that shoot ink at pages, I'll be off to buy a $5 ink ribbon for my dot matrix printer that'll last me for the next two years.