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That's a very kind gesture from you! This made me realize: why having some CDs pressed, printed and shipped if most people don't plan to ever use them? Maybe they should offer some different kind of collectible/gizmo that would be funnier than a boring layer of polycarbonate.

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I find the discs are collectable in a way. A niche collection but interesting none the less.

The covers are great (artwork that is). And they only press so many copies and once they sell out they become pretty scarce.

So maybe not comic book collectable but in my mind more sane than some of the weird stuff people collect. :-)

there are tshirts and posters. also you can donate directly to the project.

Many people collect the CDs for the artwork.

If they had USB installers instead of CDs I'd buy them and actually use them as well.

Bootable OpenBSD USB sticks are simple to make. Just use a computer with a CD drive to install OpenBSD onto a USB stick. Then you can plug the USB stick into most any computer and boot bsd.rd to do an install. You can even copy various versions of bsd.rd onto the USB stick, current, etc.

> Bootable OpenBSD USB sticks are simple to make.

So are bootable CDs and coffee, but people still buy them.

This is a fundraiser for OpenBSD -- a bootable, branded USB stick would get the purchaser their copy of OpenBSD, be future advertising ("Oh hey! That's a nice Puffy USB Key you have!"), provide utility (as a general purpose USB device) after their laptop has OpenBSD installed/updated, and be a nice little collectable artifact too.

USB images are available on the mirrors (installXX.fs).

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