Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:34:06 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD T-shirt production - anyone want to take this over? Message-ID: <3306.840926046@time.cdrom.com>
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Walnut Creek CDROM is going to be phasing out the FreeBSD T-shirts since they're just not making any money on them - stock control is very difficult (most of our T's seem to grow legs and leave the warehouse by the back door :-) and the margins are not very high if you're trying to produce a product like this with 4-color printing and heavy-duty cotton T's used as stock. Sure, we could print 2 color shirts on cheap "unravel while you watch" far-East product T shirts, but I don't think that any of us would want to see that happen. No, the real answer is that this is something that a much smaller outfit (1 or 2 people) could do far more profitably, and WC has decided it's time to let some small outfit do just that. Any volunteers? Also please note that if you intend to use the same artwork you'll also need the permission of Tatsumi Hosokawa, the artist, and you'll need to come to financial terms with Kirk McKusick, the trademark holder of the BSD Daemon. Kirk gets a portion of all sales from daemon related merchandise and how big that portion is depends entirely on whatever arrangement you come to with him. That's about all I can think of. Please let me know if you've any questions (other than "How can we convince WC to continue selling the T-shirts?!" since I've already tried that :-). Jordan
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