Howdy all,
Further to our recent discussions of the EOMA68 standard for modular
computers allowing ethical construction, the crowd funding campaign is
close to finishing <URL:https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop>.
Here is an article from Paul Boddie answering a bunch of questions
people commonly have about the EOMA68 computers.
“Why pay more for ideological purity?”
Firstly, words like “ideology”, “religion”, “church”, and so on,
might be useful terms for trolls to poison and polarise any
discussion, but does anyone not see that expecting suspiciously
cheap, increasingly capable products to be delivered in an almost
conveyor belt fashion is itself subscribing to an ideology? […]
Anyway, people pay for more sustainable, more ethical products all
the time. While the wilfully ignorant may jeer that they could just
buy what they regard as the same thing for less (usually being
unaware of factors like quality, never mind how these things get
made), more sensible people see that the extra they pay provides the
basis for a fairer, better society and higher-quality goods.
<URL:https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314>
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\ “The great thing about science is we can test our ideas.… But |
`\ until we do, until we have data, it is just one more proposal.” |
_o__) —Darren Saunders, 2015-12-02 |
Ben Finney
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