[libreoffice-users] Re: paypal

On 11/18/2013 06:57 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.

It's irritating as hell. It makes LO look as if a donation is required
(even though it says otherwise) and IMO is a bit of an embarrassment
when referring LO to others. Several have commented & were sure to
mention that AOO doesn't require this nonsense.

I just spent 10 minutes figuring out how to bypass this nonsense in
order to download a 205MB "update" for a remote user at limited
bandwidth. The default download link was downloading at 45Kbps...
Finally remembered the mirrors:
<http://download.documentfoundation.org/mirmon/allmirrors.html> and only
then was I actually able to get a reasonably speed download connection.



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