> As I made donations (by giving money, by purchasing CDs, t-shirts, ...) > to the OpenBSD project like most of the OpenBSD users, and since I > always recommends to my customers to make donations to the OpenBSD > project instead of just make use of OpenBSD freely.
You keep mixing up sales and donations. I'll tell you very clearly that not 1 cent European tshirts or posters has *ever* made it to the OpenBSD project. Wim kept all those profits. That was the arrangement with him, made around 10 years ago, so that his business would grow, and so that he would be able to pay the CD proceeds fully. Furthermore, the sales of CDs were not donations either. That is a product being sold, just like any other business. Wim fell behind *years* in paying the full value he owed for CD sales back to the project; via the Computer Shop. If he's making tshirts and posters and plush dolls, and receiving all the money from that to keep, then the least we can expect that the OpenBSD project gets what it is owed for the CD sales. Thirdly, the other donations you talk about, "giving money", that is a real gift. We have no accounting of all those gifts, and how they made it to the project. We are certain that some must have made such controbutions, but we don't know for certain, do we! I've been asked to make an accounting of them. Well, I cannot -- since Wim never accounted them to me. He did transfer 5 bank transfers of an undisclosed amount, but nothing says if that was those gifts, or if it was complete. So I guess you have just asked Wim to account for the donations.
