News Xerox buys Lexmark for $1.5 billion — printer biz consolidation deal requires approval from US and Chinese regulators

[Admin]

Xerox is buying Lexmark for $1.5 billion, pending approval from regulators in China and the U.S.

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[JRStern]

including the graphical user interface (GUI), laser printers, and the computer mouse.

EXPENSIVE laser printers, and they adopted the mouse early on but didn't invent it, and were about the first out with full WYSIWYG GUIs on the Star word processing system ... and then were also at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s! And I was there ...

SDS/XDS was also an early leader in the 1960s/70s on mainframes, and on time sharing, and stuff.

They coulda been a contender!

But now I'm almost amazed to hear that they still exist.

 

[Notton]

Further consolidation of printer patents, yay. 🙄

 

[newtechldtech]

I miss the old days of the computer industry , where we had tons of brands and competition , now it is soooo much boring ... HDD makers almost all gone , printers makers , PC makers , CPU makers , GPU makers , Servers , Everything.
it was waaay more fun back then ...