# Insufferable Gruber has Arrived [We Found The Sucker Willing to Buy Humane, and as Promised, I'm Going to be Insufferable, Because of course if was HP](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane) by John Guber [[Bring On Insufferable Gruber|Bring him on]]. Humane originally was looking for $750 million to $1 billion. HP has bought them for $116 million. > Well, at least we can say HP was smart enough not to spend $1 billion on this. But they were dumb enough to bring into their company Chaudhri, who was described to me, by someone who worked with him at Apple (and a person whom I’ve never heard badmouth a single other former colleague), as “an utter fraud”. But a fraud whose [personal website](http://www.imranchaudhri.com/) is an inadvertent testimony to the lunacy of the U.S. patent system — that it serves ego inflation, not innovation.