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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:00:18 -0300
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: GoodWill sells archaic refurbished PC's!
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In-Reply-To: <199809302219.PAA17510@shell17.ba.best.com>; from Todd Whitesel on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:19:17PM -0700

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:19:17PM -0700, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> Check this out:
> 
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980929S0016
> 
> It's a story about GoodWill (like Salvation Army, if you've only heard of them)
> fixing up old donated PC's and selling them cheap.
> 
> According to the article, one girl took her brand new PC back and bought a
> GoodWill PC because she realized she only wanted to websurf and print letters.

Only for purposes of being picky (and pointing it out, in case it matters
in further discussions) my understanding is that GoodWill is a _for_ profit
company, as opposed to a charity or non-profit. Some people have commented
to me that they feel GoodWill's use of a charitable 'image' is abusive.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville