Re: gEDA-user: Looking for PCB fab recommendations

[msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov)]

Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > * SnPb finish - this one is an absolute requirement for ideological /
> >   philosophical reasons, RoHS crap is *not* acceptable.
>
> In the nicest possible way, WTF?

RoHS is an evil abomination that is reprehensible to the core of my
being.  The whole underlying philosophy behind RoHS is that "bad"
elements should be eliminated from electronic products because those
products will ultimately be thrown out and put into landfill.  I am
fundamentally at odds with that ideology because I don't believe that
any computing, communication or other electronics should *ever* be
thrown out.  The idea of buying a new computer every few years and
tossing the old one out is fundamentally reprehensible to me.
Computing machinery should be passed through generations from father to
son to grandson.  I am using 1970s technology to compose this E-mail and
I plan on continuing to use it well past 2038.

The lead-free crap suffers from the severe problem of tin whiskers.  The
f***heads behind it don't care because they expect their crap to be
thrown into trash long before tin whiskers grow, but it is a real problem
for anyone who wants his electronic creations to outlast his own
lifetime.  I want my SDSL gadget to be usable to my great-great-great-
great-grandchildren, so they can still connect their networks at 384 kbps
even when everyone else around them has gone to exabits per second.

MS


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