I agree. Should one take care about this at the moment I guess I have no time at all to start this activity.
Le mardi 31 mars 2009 C 13:33 +0800, David Schulz a C)crit : > 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.
