[GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> The "Thinkpad love" I see here IMO appears to reflect the age and
> experiences of the discussion participants. Early in the days of PCs there
> was way more diversity in hardware that could be explicitly Linux friendly
> or hostile, and IBM was friendlier from the start when not all were.
> Recall that in the 90s and 00s, HP, IBM and Dell (well DEC which was
> eventually consumed by Dell via Compaq) all had big legacy
> Unix/minicomputer businesses to protect, plus under Ballmer Microsoft was
> overtly and aggressively hostile. IBM probably did the best job in not
> letting all this get in the way of providing Linux support early on its
> high-end PCs, and that reputation has stuck to the Thinkpad brand to this
> day.

No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed
the Alpha.  Not Dell.

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Len Sorensen