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 [email protected] 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.
