Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for |
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Msg-id | 1073420472.21439.7.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004 (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
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Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for
Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for |
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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:04, Josh Berkus wrote: > Josh: > > > Odd. I was told by an Abiword person in November that the money was never > > returned; I will contact them to clarify. > > OK, clarified: what Marc had *meant* was that Paypal did not cough up (or > event respond to e-mails or faxes) until the Abiword theft story got > slashdotted. > > Still doesn't really improve my impression of PayPal .... > > This is similar to a discussion we had on OpenOffice.org regarding Kazaa. > Kazaa had offered to let the OOo 1.0 distribution be a free pilot for their > "Kazaa Gold" service. We discussed it, and decided that participating in > this program would be effectively putting OOo's "stamp of approval" on > Kazaa's whole business model, of which we were not fond, and declined. > Help me out here... what's your perceived difference between kazaa and bittorrent? > For similar reasons, I would not favor setting up a donations account through > PayPal. However unlikely it is that PG would come to harm through PayPal, > the company has not changed its customer-abusive written policies and I would > not want to do anything that would encourage more people signing up with > them. > yeesh... given that AbiWord themselves still use paypal for donations (http://www.abisource.com/information/news/donation-abiword.phtml) I think that folks who avoid paypal based on that incident are off the mark. Not saying there aren't a lot of other reasons you might want to avoid using them, but if they're good enough for Abiword.... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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