6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
2:42 p.m.
On 6 Nov 2001 at 13:05, Ernest wrote:
Actually, their charter is to hire those who are normally "unhireable" and put
them to work. If the museum helps bring in business to keep their business
going, then it works within the system. Plus, if the store is selling enough to
"show a profit", then it's not really "necessary" to sell these
items _now_.
Keep in mind that this is in reality a private collection, and could be sold at
any time if they wanted or needed to.
George
Though I do covet some of the items in the
museum, there is at
least one positive thing that
having it at Goodwill has over it being in the hands of a private
collector, and that is that the
items are available for many more people to "enjoy". Now they
might not get as much as
someone on this list who can "truely appreciate" it, but a great
many people have seen it and
had positive experiences. I think having something like this is
very good at raising the
awareness amongst people that these old computers aren't purely
boat anchors. A few of the
systems there were saved from the scrapper by the virtue of the
person seeing the museum
and donating versus junking the systems.
That is a good point but doesn't it seem a little strange that an
organization that is supposed to be focused on selling donated junk to help
the poor would hold onto items that are clearly worth a bit of money for the
purpose of display? Is that ethical? Are they developing a new focus?