On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 02.09.20 15:08, Mark Pearson wrote: > > Hi Debian developers, > > > > Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!) > > the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available: > > > > US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux > > Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca > > I think before jumping on this offer, one should consider this: > https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale > > Lenovo is by far not the only company producing laptops with forced > labor involved, however they have not - as of today - as far as I can > see - cared to comment on those report at all: > > * they have neither denied nor ack'ed it > * and they haven't said either that they'd no longer use forced labor to > produce their wares > > I'd conclude from that, that Lenovo still is, will be, and is not > planing to stop using forced labor to produce those laptops. > > I'm not sure there are alternatives: I have not researched them > intensively yet - I am currently in need of a new laptop too, so I'll > have to look around whether there are other brands that do not rely on > companies that employ forced labor. Pointers welcome. You may want to consider System76 [0] and Purism [1]. They are not in the force labor lists pointed in this thread, maybe they are ethically better than the others. Dom [0] https://system76.com [1] https://puri.sm -- rsa4096: 3B10 0CA1 8674 ACBA B4FE FCD2 CE5B CF17 9960 DE13 ed25519: FFB4 0CC3 7F2E 091D F7DA 356E CC79 2832 ED38 CB05
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