[westbywest]

People are stupid. That's been empirically proven, and the fact continues to demonstrate itself on a regular basis. This has more to do with the definition of 'stupid' being quite unrelenting w.r.t. to human nature.

That said, a comment to the original article, purportedly from an HP insider, described Carly Fiorina's zeal over profiting from HP's inkjet division, and how it caused some medical research being done by that division (cancer research?) to be axed because of insufficient profit potential.

The expectation that medical research should be profitable is an entirely different kind of stupid.