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Wilful "Hear no Evil, See no Evil", or just an arrogant lack of compassion for anything that doesn't directly affect geeks (like, say, the differences between different releases of the Star Wars films)?

You decide.

The original reports and campaign from CAFOD can be found around here.

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Maybe this is how IBM make the money:

http://www.cafod.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/c lean_up_your_computer/lupita

Exploitation in the third world funds improved image in the first.

All this talk of opening up the Power 5 architecture just means to me that IBM is exiting the hard side of the manufacturing business and entering into being a designer and integrator; all the while and letting the poisonous drudge work to be done in various countries where public & workers rights are not well enforced.

IBM has moved assembly of Thinkpad , Netvista/Adaptiva (really Sanmima-SCI), and mid end Servers to outside the US to be a player. Now comes the egress of high end chips design work and assembly/integration.

Eventually IBM won't manufacture supercomputers in the USA at all but will design them, have some subcontractor build them then import them under the IBM name and sell them to the US GOV.

How many broken backs, destroyed environments, and tears for a cheap GFLOP or a MIP?

Clean up your computer!
is a site explaining some of the ethical background over
who really made your computer (and other electronic components).

According to their report,
more than 1/3 of all computers are made in third-world countries.
The workers are low-skilled and low-paid, and often women.
Many are employed on consecutive short-term contracts (3 months at most), so they're in fear of loosing their jobs.
Factory conditions may be unsafe, wages below the legal minimums, with compulsory overtime.
Workers are often faced with degrading treatment.

Take the Electronics employment quiz
to see if you could get a job at a Mexican electronics factory.
(Hint: there's discrimination in hiring practices)

Clean up your computer!
is a site explaining some of the ethical background over
who really made your computer (and other electronic components).

According to their report,
more than 1/3 of all computers are made in third-world countries.
The workers are low-skilled and low-paid, and often women.
Many are employed on consecutive short-term contracts (3 months at most), so they're in fear of loosing their jobs.
Factory conditions may be unsafe, wages below the legal minimums, with compulsory overtime.
Workers are often faced with degrading treatment.

Take the Electronics employment quiz
to see if you could get a job at a Mexican electronics factory.
(Hint: there's discrimination in hiring practices)

Clean up your computer!
is a site explaining some of the ethical background over
who really made your computer (and other electronic components).

According to their report,
more than 1/3 of all computers are made in third-world countries.
The workers are low-skilled and low-paid, and often women.
Many are employed on consecutive short-term contracts (3 months at most), so they're in fear of loosing their jobs.
Factory conditions may be unsafe, wages below the legal minimums, with compulsory overtime.
Workers are often faced with degrading treatment.

Take the Electronics employment quiz
to see if you could get a job at a Mexican electronics factory.
(Hint: there's discrimination in hiring practices)

But then again, it's ok if they fire people for bing pregnant in the factories making IBM Thinkpads, HPs and Dells.

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