[ltp] Re: Lenovo to shun Linux

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:36:38 -0400


David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
>> I refuse to call Lenovo laptops real "Thinkpads". Thinkpads were to 
>> IBM standards high quality devices.  Lenovo laptops aren't, whatever 
>> the brandname is.
> 
>     Even though Lenovo has been manufacturing Thinkpads for IBM under 
> the Thinkpad name for the last 2+ years?

When they manufactured for IBM, they had to meet IBM's specs.