Living Computer Museum

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Thu May 28 08:49:07 CDT 2020


On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 9:14 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Also remember that museums don't necessarily honor contracts, and when
> they don't, courts may fail to enforce them.  There was a notorious case a
> few years ago involving a museum created by a bequest that required it to
> be remain located in whatever town it was founded in (a small town in PA, I
> think).  At some point the people running the museum decided they didn't
> like that and moved it to another city (Philadelphia?).  The descendants of
> the benefactor sued for breach of contract, and lost.  I forgot what fancy
> BS the courts used to justify their decision, but in some lawyerly fashion
> they did.
>
>         paul
>
>
>
What museum was that?

Bill


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