Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:37:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD T-shirt production - anyone want to take this over? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960824193706.2158L-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <3306.840926046@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. Didn't know they even had T-shirts for FreeBSD.... How much are they? > > 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 > ---- || Shoppers Network BEST PRICES, FULLY x86 COMPATIBLE & FAST!!! || PO BOX 16627 Cyrix 686s now available! || San Francisco, CA 94116 Email - info@shoppersnet.com | ------------------------------> WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com -------------------------------> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping
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