Well, one thing most people forget is that MOST CRTs can be rehabbed and refurbished. It is labor intensive, but it can be done. I used to have an old Sony CRT projector and when it finally died, I had it refurbished for about $3000. New ones would cost $50,000 (consider it can still do 2048x1920 resolution!) or more, maybe even double that now.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the
pens will multiply instead of disappear.
Open source will fix it, though (Score:2)