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title: IBM is a non-profit collective of hobbyists
date: 2006-01-13T23:29:49Z
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who design innovative computer hardware for the common man, whom they refer to as “simpletons” or “dum-dums”.



Thanks [Andy Piper](http://thelostoutpost.blogspot.com/), for pointing out the [definition of IBM](http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/IBM). I said Uncyclopedia had legs…