So that's Rudy with a "R," right? :-)
On Mar 29, 2012 9:43 AM, "R Sedlak" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Let's be big kids.  In this modern age, none of us can be certain of the
> origin of anything we buy, all we can do is take assurances from
> distributors, who ALWAYS the truth, or at least their version of it.
> The good news is that the ultimate customer also cannot tell where a
> material comes from, so there is no way to prove we are not telling the
> truth, if we assure the customer that nothing we supply comes from anywhere
> they do not want it to come from.
> This is a purely self-righteous political move, and should be treated the
> way all such naive questions deserve... tell the customer what they want to
> hear.
>
> And, do NOT quote me on this :-)
>
> --- On Thu, 3/29/12, Blair Hogg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Blair Hogg <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [TN] Conflict Minerals
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:44 AM
>
> We have been receiving requests from customers for statements thta our
> products do not have any content of minerals from conflict areas, e.g.
> Congo. Anyone else getting these? How are you handling them?
>
> The point behind this is apparently to avoid providing funding of
> aggressors through the purchase of minerals from areas in conflict. A quick
> glance at this makes it look even worse than RoHS, now it is not simply the
> materials in the components, but from where they originate.
>
> Blair
>
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