Quoting Domenico Andreoli (2020-09-03 15:31:32) > 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 I agree¹ that those are great options to consider, but beware that companies *not* appearing in such lists might simply be too small for investigative journalists to scrutinize their full supply chain. - Jonas ¹ full disclosure: I am paid by Purism for some of my Debian work -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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