Jeez i cant believe all this goes on on misc@ , truth be told the best would have been to setup a 2nd trustworthy distributor in Europe, and silently move over the European Order Sites control to the new Guy. Then, or at the same time, convince Wim in private to make a small announcement that he wont be continuing doing the Orders for some reason or another; while in the back you Guys could have worked out the proceedings regarding the outstanding cash. Instead, every bystander gets to throw in his own Oppinion; the Result clearly visible in that ass long E-Mail thread.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:23:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Enough CDs will be provided to kd85 to cover orders that were placed > through the order site. Only that amount of CDs will be provided to > kd85. No more. > > In providing kd85 with enough for the direct orders, we are simply > trying to provide enough for the order requests which we feel we > handed over. > > We will not supply CDs for the bulk orders that kd85 normally supplies > to various resellers in Europe, ie. book stores and computer shops. > Doing so would further enrich kd85 and further increase Wim's debt to > the Computer Shop and in turn the project. > > Those European resellers who need bulk orders are requested to come > talk to aus...@openbsd.org as soon as possible; and we are trying to > find a bulk reseller in Europe to make the transition quick and easy. > I am certain that the resellers will understand the reason why we are > here; the middle man has fallen ridiculously far behind in A/R. And > no, not because of the economy. It's taken years to get this far > behind. > > Poster and tshirt art will not be supplied to kd85, so thus there will > be no sales of tshirts from there, either. Sorry. > > As I previously very carefully said in the commit message: > > Disable future European orders since the distributor is way too far behind > in reconciling payments to the project for past sales, and years of trying > to resolve it have made very little progress. > > I refuse to further enrich a person who is that far behind in accounts > receivables to the Computer Shop (and in turn, thus, the OpenBSD > project). People were led to believe the CD sales money funded the > project. From Europe in recent years, it has not worked out as we > hoped; I share in the blame for having let it go this far wrong. > We've had to ask for donations to buy hardware, when the CD sales > money should have been enough. > --
