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[–] 30 points 9 months ago* (14 children)

Just wondering why you’re singling them out like that. Especially if you want to avoid anyone that has anything to do with them. If we’re talking acquisitions from IBM, the largest owner of patents originally owned by IBM is Google (they bought around 2.5k). Companies that had significant dealings with IBM include Microsoft, which would probably not exist in its current form without the original contract from IBM to develop DOS. (Linux would also be quite different if the influence from RedHat, owned by IBM, was removed.) And pretty much every PC manufacturer who’s been in the business for long enough would have licensed IBM technologies at some point or at least copied them. Even though they failed to make money from licensing the original PC design or later inventions like USB memory sticks, IBM created a lot of computing basics such as DRAM.

Avoiding Lenovo kind of sounds like a random easy way out. They have much less influence. I’m not consciously avoiding them and still have nothing from them. They’re not difficult to avoid at all.

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  • [+] -52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

    Sorry I'm not going to read your comment in its entirety as I'm watching a new DND campaign, and got a cat begging for attention.

    I'm not singling them out. I avoid BMWs, VWs, and Fords for the same reason despite being a huge fan of all .

    Edit: strange 30 plus of y'all are in favor of fascism....

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Again with the easy choices though? It’s trivial to avoid a few car brands. So far you’re only listing companies people are likely to randomly not buy from anyway. When someone asked a question about something where it’s not as easy, you blocked them. You’re not avoiding Nazi collaborators, you’re just virtue signaling in the cheapest way possible.

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  • [+] -47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

    I'm going to apologize again.

    My cat takes precedence.

    Edit: love that my love for my cat upset a few of fuckers!

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    You feign politeness while scapegoating an animal for your reluctance to truly examine your own decisions. You could just come back to these comments when you have time, but don't want to.

    Why is it more important to avoid brands associated with evil than to avoid the users of patients associated with evil?

    The ThinkPad brand wasn't responsible for anything, it was just one brand developed among many by a company after the evil in question was perpetrated.

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  • [+] -28 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Guess I'm wrong according to the hivemind

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I think you're wrong because of the arguments I raised and the complete lack of any rebuttal.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    You're just feeding the troll, buddy.

    Of course, no judgement here if wasting the time of a troll is something you enjoy.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    What makes you feel that I'm a troll? I have a pretty expansive public history you're more than welcome to check out that would disagree with you.

    If my responses to you puts me in that category, then I feel genuine pity for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Apparently you're such a well known troll that even 6 days later someone other than me downvoted you.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Again, got a public profile that proves you are not only incorrect, but wildly so.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (2 children)

    So why were you trolling in this thread, then? You weren't exactly being subtle about it.

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