My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 04:56:02 -0400, JMZ wrote:
>On 09/10/2016 04:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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>> Technical progress is not the same as human progress. Computer
>> progress is just required in a few domains, that are completely
>> irrelevant for most computer users, but human kind needs progress,
>> we can't continue our social and ecological misbehaviour much longer.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>>  
>
>Ralf, as you know, computer recycling is big business in North America 
>and the EU.  There's a depot in my American town where people throw
>away unused technology for recycling.  Developed countries can recycle
>as users buy new boxes.  It's just not realistic to expect this level
>of ecological ability in most countries.  We can work on developing a
>green computer recycling system in other places, but achieving that
>goal might take a long time.  Until then, it's just important to get
>the world online.

As already pointed out, recycling or refurbishing for the poor already
is the wrong approach, only using computers for a longer period of time
and repairing components of computers, instead of replacing them
completely solves environmental and social problems. The poot should
use the same computers as the rich. Recycling does not mean that it
doesn't cause e-waste and waste by idiotic traffic there and back to
foreign country's slums and that workers aren't exploited. Just rare
earth elements are recycled and much e-waste remains. The complete
approach is wrong.

Regards,
Ralf