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> -- \ “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