Currently the OpenBSD store has mugs, t-shirts, posters, and CDs. All of
those require more expense than stickers. Stickers are rather inexpensive
to produce, can be sold for high markup, and cost very little to ship, not
to mention are very popular, especially in the tech industry.
It wouldn't require any new artwork or commissions. If you were to sell
Puffy stickers or OpenBSD Logo stickers I'm sure they'd be top-sellers.
Case in point, UnixStickers.com charges $2.69 per sticker and that doesn't
include shipping.
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Jay Williams
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:44 PM, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Jay Williams wrote on Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:34:21AM -0600:
>>
>>> P.S. Does anyone know why the official OpenBSD store doesn't sell
>>> stickers? I bet they'd be a big seller!
>>
>> People loved them while they were still sold, but in the end, even
>> though they were accompanied by installable CDs sets also containing
>> the source tree, they no longer generated enough revenue to justify
>> the investment in terms of time and money required to produce them.
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> During that time, people would buy stickers from shops that used
> our art without permission. And didn't give back.
>
> Now, people are chatting about buying them from stores that don't give
> a cent back. Basically, they are copyright violations. Unauthorized.
> Theft. I paid people to draw them.
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> It was a loss-generating venture.
>
> I learned my lesson. I won't put any effort into anything like that
> again, because I don't like being stabbed in the back by community
> who will buy from people who steal from me.
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