Re: [libreoffice-users] paypal

Hi :)
I am guessing you haven't looked at the official LibreOffice downloads
page for several months.   Yes it is Free but to a new person it looks
like we are demanding money, until they spot the clues.  Still the
default donation set on the page is $10 which even i could probably
pay without too much angst = especially when compared with some of the
alternatives!
Regards from
Tom :)


On 18 November 2013 18:01, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 11/18/2013 09:57 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > James didn't get quite far enough.  It's a page or so further on.  The
> > way page is set-up it does look as though you do HAVE TO make a
> > donation before the download will start.  It's only the geeks that
> > will notice their own web-browser is the only thing blocking the
> > download from really starting.
> >
> > The marketing team did discuss this and various other options but the
> > technology is not quite their yet to allow the whole thing to be more
> > polite and less demanding.  After a lot of discussion they finally
> > settled on doing the same as other projects, such as Ubuntu and many
> > others.
> >
> > Actually Ubuntu's is more demanding.  With them you get a list of
> > areas where you suggest which areas you want your donation to be
> > targeted towards (with no promise it will be used for that (to avoid
> > accountancy nightmares)) and you have to scroll all the way down to
> > the bottom of the page before you see something like "get me out of
> > here, skip all this and just do the download"
> >
> >
> > If i hadn't been so involved in the discussion in marketing then i
> > would probably have stopped around the same point as James tbh.  It's
> > only because i was so irate at the time that i went further to check.
> > As it's turned out it's not been quite as bad as i feared.  There have
> > only been a couple people who didn't quite notice and then grumbled
> > about something.
> >
> > The technology nearly is there but it's not smooth and doesn't always
> > work reliably on all systems and all web-browsers.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> > On 18 November 2013 13:15, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
> > > josephine mcdonald wrote:
> > > > hi, i donated $10.00 via pay-pal 11/18/13... but now i'm having trouble downloading 
> > > > libreoffice.. i can't get past the page asking for a donation??     can you help?
> > >
> > > You don''t have to make a donation to download, though it's certainly
> > > appreciated.  Where are you trying to download from?  I just tried
> > > www.libreoffice.org and the only mention of donation was at the bottom
> > > of the first page.  I was able to go directly to the download page
> > > without having to make any donation.
> > >
> > > --
> LO is free. That's FREE! It even comes with a lot of Linux distros, no
> cash needed. You should look for another download site--somebody's
> trying to rip you off!
>
> --doug
>
> --
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> --A.M.Greeley
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