Jeff Atwood’s *ambivalent* Christmas experience shows a market that is ready for disruption. Jeff got a couple of Lenovo servers only to realize the package did not contain drive mounting brackets, meaning he could not use ANY hard drives but only those by Lenovo – at an outrageous markup, that is.

I am surprised that even today business models based on racketeering work – in the commodity industry such as PC servers. It’s an industry where all the know-how and standards are public knowledge. Is it really possible NOT to be able to get those mounting brackets off eBay, $5 shipped?

Odd.