On 11/06/2011 09:00 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 07:47:18AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
I've recently read a news article which talked about Foxconn and
their supposed abusive labour practices. Foxconn is the maker of a
lot of popular electronics including the iPhone.
This got me thinking, when I go off an buy a motherboard or memory
SIMM or whatever, am I buying a product which has been manufactured
by laborers who work under conditions I wouldn't allow my own family
to work under? Is there any awarness campain or whatever which
allows one to buy some electronic component which was manufactured
in conditions which meet some kind of labor standards? On my part, I
would pay more for my electronic components if I new they were being
manufactured using a by someone who's working under good conditions,
not sweat shop like conditions. Am I being too paranoid about this
in the sense that labor conditions in China are just fine and the
workers are well paid and not over worked?
I think this is on topic for Blu.... Sorry if I'm off topic...
As far as I can tell, all of the motherboard manufacturers in
the world are unethical at best... possibly excluding Intel, but
I don't actually know.
I have heard specifically bad things about Asus, Foxconn,
Gigabyte, and MSI.
-dsr-
As we buy dolphin safe tuna, should we be buying labor friendly high
tech products? I don't know why I've suddenly gotten this guilt feeling
thinking that the computer I use was put together under abusive labor
practices.... For some reason it's really never crossed my mind who are
the people and under what working conditions they labor who worked on
assembling the components of my PC. On the software side, my computer is
based on GNU software, but the hardware side has just been a black box
to me...
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