Besides Barbie and board games, Mattel also owns The Learning Company, 2nd largest software maker in the world next to M$ (or so they claimed when I was in training there). Their product line is almost exclusively Windows-centric with a few bones thrown to the Mac crowd.
If you were to boycott Mattel, you would also have to boycott Jasc Software, Intuit, and a whole bevy of companies you never would have suspected were owned by the evil empire.
Besides, a boycott isn't really necessary. Everyone knows that a TLC label is as much a symbol of crap as a M$ label, especially their games (which I used to tech).
"From the back of the short bus we present to you a man with the IQ of a genius and the attention span of a goldfish - The gaijin|dog!"
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Besides Barbie and board games, Mattel also owns The Learning Company, 2nd largest software maker in the world next to M$ (or so they claimed when I was in training there). Their product line is almost exclusively Windows-centric with a few bones thrown to the Mac crowd.
If you were to boycott Mattel, you would also have to boycott Jasc Software, Intuit, and a whole bevy of companies you never would have suspected were owned by the evil empire.
Besides, a boycott isn't really necessary. Everyone knows that a TLC label is as much a symbol of crap as a M$ label, especially their games (which I used to tech).
"From the back of the short bus we present to you a man with the IQ of a genius and the attention span of a goldfish - The gaijin|dog!"