Let me start by saying I realise that Luke (& undoubtedly others) have already put a *lot* of sweat into EOMA-68, and will likely be working some very long hours in the months ahead.
I also realise that even with the tremendous success of the first CrowdSupply round, the volume of production is minuscule compared to Apple, Acer, Dell, etc, and hence also the risk of exploiting contracted workers will be lower - even if only because fewer workers will be assembling EOMA68 hardware. Nevertheless, low resource use; reusability; repairability; RYF compliance... these are necessary properties of an ethical computer, but not quite sufficient ones. Avoiding slavery, indentured labour, etc, and ensuring electronics supply chain workers are able to live decent lives, is surely an equally important part of building ethical computers. With that in mind, are there any plans for Rhombus Tech or other EOMA-68 producers/partners to work with organisations such as these? http://electronicswatch.org/en/ http://chinalaborwatch.org http://www.sacom.hk http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/lang--en/index.htm I suppose that the ideal thing would be for some sort of ethical sourcing requirement to be written into the EOMA-68 standard ;) - spk _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
