[diminish]

I have a dream:

A large company buys Thinkpad as a brand and launches a few shiny Linux Laptops

[roywashere]

You mean like https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-lapt...

(And more or less ThinkPad was already sold: from IBM to Lenovo in 2005)

[tomcooks]

Instead of making bad Mac Air clones a company should make 1:1 replicas of sturdy, old school, ThinkPads (t420, x230, x220, etc)

There's a market for cheap, reliable, battle tested equipment

[generalizations]

I wonder how much of the design of those oldschool ThinkPads is patented or otherwise protected. What's to stop some enterprising hacker from making those replicas without authorization?