'Cause it makes money!
Why did HP not write or provide the solution for a Win 7 driver for millions of its 1010/12/15 Laserjets? After all they provide a pre-paid box and label to return the old toner cartridge. But they didn't and their forums are full of thousands of flames.
There are simple ways of getting the old machines to work, even better in some cases by using Vista drivers and "pretending" the machine is something else. And there is a German site which provides an English page with a modified .inf file to replace the XP one. Once you do this, you insert your old CD and tell your computer which model you have and it gladly accepts what you have. And you mean HP won't tell you this? Green and Eco friendly? Only Public Relations.
And who "sponsored" digital TV, huh? Why the good ole Federal Gov't of the USA so they could auction off the spectrum for billions and get almost everyone to help the economy by buying new digital TVs. Whereby, millions of tons of lead based CRTs and heavy-metal based parts are dumped in landfills, ditches, lakes, swamps and at the back of farms to rot away and release their time-bombs. Like anyone really cares.
Hey wars are for oil. Oil is for cars. Cars are for pollution. Cars need more roads but Freedom is the Right of Anyone to go where and how they want any time. Sorry, no such thing as human eco-friendliness. Until the end of the road comes. (Unless Apple gets to you first. Sorry for that, fankidz.)
