> I still fail to see any relationship between genocide and > war crimes on > the one hand and a mailing list devoted to discussing FOSS > and related > policies in India on the other. I guess if you try > hard enough you can > make a connection between any two ideas, but this one still > eludes me -- > perhaps because of my own lack of perception.
here is what i though as the connection. maybe its not FOSS but hardware. most of the mobile phone or comps(running free software) might have conflict minerals. if a tracing system comes in place..maybe our comps will have non conflict minerals, maybe lesser people will die . maybe that's a policy issue related to hardware. "Finally, the refiners sell Congo’s minerals onto the electronics companies. The electronics industry is the single largest consumer of the minerals from eastern Congo. The now-processed metals usually go through a few sub-stages here—first to circuit board and computer chip manufacturers, then to cell phone and other electronics manufacturers, and finally to the mainstream electronics companies such as Intel, Apple, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, Nintendo, etc. These companies then make the products that we all know and buy—cell phones, portable music players, video games, and laptop computers. Because companies do not currently have a system to trace, audit, and certify where their materials come from, all cell phones and laptops may contain conflict minerals from Congo. The electronics industry is not the only one that uses the 3Ts and gold, but it is the largest" _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
