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Story: Foxconn China plant closed after 2,000 riotTotal Replies: 5
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Bob_Robertson

Sep 26, 2013
11:43 AM EDT 		Remember when flooding caused disk drive prices to rise?

It will be interesting to see what goes up now.
skelband

Sep 26, 2013
12:43 PM EDT 		It certainly has been an interesting week.

I can't remember in recent times a week as influential or important for Linux.
djohnston

Sep 26, 2013
2:21 PM EDT 		From the article,

Quoting:Foxconn does not confirm which of its plants supply Apple, but an employee told Reuters that the Taiyuan plant is among those that assemble and make parts for Apple's iPhone 5.
Bob_Robertson

Sep 26, 2013
4:05 PM EDT 		I would be surprised if that's the only thing a huge assembly plant does. Not impossible, just surprised.
shem

Sep 27, 2013
12:24 AM EDT 		aaannd the date of the article is... tadaaah: Sep 24, 2012
djohnston

Sep 27, 2013
1:38 AM EDT
Quoting:aaannd the date of the article is... tadaaah: Sep 24, 2012


Well, I missed that entirely. Glad you caught it. I'll read more closely in the future. Here's a followup:

Foxconn Riot: Largest Apple Supplier Suffers Another Violent Outbreak

I double checked the story date. ;^)

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