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  "textContent": "MAU:\n\n> @ArceusI What is with your penchant for companies who facilitate war crimes or contribute to death and destruction? Motorola are naughty. If big corp makes something, you will more or less get an oppressive variant of what we have now. The hope is with smaller companies and collective initiatives to make alternatives. Can you imagine Motorola making F-Droid (shudder). I know you love your big corps, but really.\n\nI have not had time to jump back into this thread for quite a while, but I just had to chime in about this Motorola stuff.\n\nThe company that sells smartphones branded “Motorola” that is doing a deal with Graphene has literally no connection to the Motorola you are thinking of other than specifically their former handset business that Google bought from the original Motorola 14 years ago.\n\nGoogle did that primarily to take over their patent portfolio, and then after 2 years flipped it again to Lenovo, less most of the Motorola patents Google wanted from it.\n\nLenovo IMHO is one of the better Chinese electronic companies in terms of ethics. They took over IBM’s PC business in 2005 and retained a large number of the ex-IBM employees in major engineering centers in the USA and Japan for many years and the management has a reputation for having what I would call a more “worldly” attitude than most of their more insular national counterparts over the years. I have happily used their laptop computers for many years.\n\nThat said, I won’t be buying one of those devices because I’m not a fan of the Graphene organization. But that’s a separate matter.\n\nen.wikipedia.org\n\n### Motorola Mobility\n\nMotorola Mobility LLC, marketed as Motorola (stylized in all-lowercase as motorola), is a Chinese-owned, United States-based consumer electronics manufacturer primarily producing smartphones and other mobile devices running Android. Motorola is headquartered at Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, and has been a subsidiary of Lenovo since 2014. Motorola Mobility was formed on January 4, 2011, after a split of the original Motorola Inc. into two separate companies, with Motorola Mobility ass...",
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