19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
2:45 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Aaron Nabil wrote:
"rescued" a 15 inch VGA monitor from
Goodwill. So to you it might be a
"precious piece of computer history", to the vendor it's a "piece of
crap
some crazy people might think is valuable". And the dumpstering of it,
from your point of view, is "destruction of this country's computing
heritage" while to the vendor it's "getting rid of the garbage the freaks
wouldn't buy". To the vendor it isn't a ethics question but a logistics
one.
I hope you're not taking yourself seriously with these sorts of comments.
I'll reiterate what I said previously, which is that if this is how
vendors are perceiving what they're selling and who they're selling it to
(especially when we're talking about the hobby computer collecting market)
they are in the wrong business.
If you want to label the desire to maximize profit as
"greed and
selfishness" you are welcome to but it's not a very realistic way of
looking at how the world works.
It's certainly one valid interpretation.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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