[sdiy] Chinese goods

[Karl Ekdahl]

This discussion is very interesting to me, i've been wondering if there's really any way of getting objective information about various manufacturers/suppliers work towards more environmental/humanitarian workplaces. I'm currently using a chinese board manufacturer, with the standpoint already mentioned here - that if anything's gonna change over there people need to make demands and that's mostly being done by educated people hence an industry requiring an educated work force should make this happen. It is also true, again as already stated, that the boards i've gotten from over there are better quality for a lower price then what i've gotten from the US so no i'm not trying to fool anyone that i'm 100% altruistic.


Karl



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Från: Ian Fritz <ijfritz at comcast.net>
Till: David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca>; 'Colin f' <colin at colinfraser.com>; Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Skickat: torsdag, 15 september 2011 18:05
Ämne: Re: [sdiy] OT: Chinese goods

At 01:31 PM 9/15/2011, David G Dixon wrote:
> > The problems will come if and when the Chinese learn to
> > innovate themselves.
> > Fortunately for us, innovation requires free-thinking of
> > exactly the sort that will get you locked up.
> 
> It's coming.

Absolutely.  As I understand
it, they are already doing well in some fields such as biotech/drugs. They are building huge well-funded research institutes and even hiring away brains from the West.

I remember when people talked the same way about Japan -- couldn't do anything but cheap ripoffs.  Then suddenly -- it almost seemed overnight -- I saw their research papers starting to turn up in prestigeous journals such as Applied Phys. Lett.  China will be next.

Ian 
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