On 2011-04-21 02.51, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> When ordering a CD it lets you tack on a donation. Call it 20 CDs and
> tax life is good.
Yes I know, but as I tried to explain it doesn't help me if the receipt
says "donation" or anything like it. You clearly don't know my accountant...
:-) A simple multi-license article on the order form with a proper article
text on the invoice would let me "donate" while keeping my accountant happy,
as well as avoiding paying more taxes than necessary.
> - or -
>
> Order 20 CDs, give 19 away.
>
> Not very hard...
I don't think I can muster 19 willing recipients of a gift CD set among my
friends to be honest... :-/ Besides, it may sound silly but I really don't
like to waste resources, be it my money, someone elses or some finite
natural resource (CD:s don't grow on trees, do they? :-) ).
Really, I'd happily pay the same price for one CD set plus n-1 CD-less
licenses (and hopefully get the same volume discount as well), and it would
be a true win-win for everyone.
Regards,
/Benny
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:07:20AM +0200, Benny Lofgren wrote:
>> On 2011-04-19 16.27, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>> Income:
>>> The direct income from sales (Computer Shop (primarily) + distributors)
>>> -> Keeps the electrons flowing
>>> -> Keeps me from taking that cushy Microsoft job
>>>
>>> Donations:
>>> The OpenBSD Foundation
>>> -> Funds the big hackathons and some smaller ones
>>> -> Funds the network links
>>> The paypal and european accounts
>>> -> Funds the remaining small hackathons
>>> -> Buys strange new pieces of hardware which are not donated
>>
>> I'm sure this has been brought up before, but is there a way to buy
>> "licenses" without actually getting the CD:s?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that however much I like to have the CD sets in my
>> bookshelf, I don't need ten or twenty of them... :-) But I still would like
>> for my company to pay a fair fee for each system we run OpenBSD on.
>>
>> What complicates things for us is that the concept of donations isn't very
>> practical here in Sweden, as a donation isn't regarded as a tax deductible
>> expense at all, neither for private individuals nor corporations. A pure
>> donation will in practice be nearly twice as expensive as the price tag
>> itself would imply.
>>
>> For us it would be awesome to have the opportunity to order a "multi-server
>> CD", where I could specify for example a ten-system "license", which
>> would get
>> me one CD set for the price of ten, with a good receipt for a perfectly
>> valid,
>> deductible business expense. It would be an excellent deal in my book. :-)
>>
>> (In the meantime, I'll just order the usual CD set with a T-shirt or a
>> mug or
>> two and hope for a better way to spend more money later on. :-) )
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Benny
>>
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