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- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
