Did you know that money from those donations is available for the
community to use for everything from attending conferences to hosting
loco events?

http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/

Michael Hall
mhall...@ubuntu.com

On 01/16/2014 04:52 AM, Brian Burger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com
> <mailto:bkere...@ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I think he is confused by the Donation Splash page that comes up.
> 
> 
> Good Lord, that's actually a thing. Go through from the front page,
> following the various "Download Ubuntu/Get Ubuntu" links, and eventually
> you get a page with a set of sliders to choose how you divvy up your
> donation, a very prominent "Pay with Paypal" button at the lower-right,
> and a significantly less prominent, "No, just download Ubuntu" link off
> to the bottom left. If you're scanning quickly for the actual download
> link or just clicking through waiting for a download to start, it's not
> hard to miss the "free download" button.
> 
> That's at about the same level of "service" as some of the skeevier
> random file-sharing websites I've occasionally tripped over. Nicely
> done, Canonical.
> 
> The last large number of years I've just gone straight to
> releases.ubuntu.com <http://releases.ubuntu.com> when I needed a new
> shiny ISO. Hadn't realized the front-end was so distasteful. Not
> impressed. It's a good thing Ubuntu itself is so awesome, a lot of the
> rest of what Canonical gets up to leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
> 
> Brian.
> 
> 

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