In case anyone is considering using PayPal for donations to open source projects, see the forwarded message below:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Donations for TortoiseSVN Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:46:19 +0200 From: Stefan Küng <[email protected]> Reply-To: users <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Hi, Yesterday, I received an email from PayPal with the subject "PayPal appeal denied". Which is surprising because I never appealed to anything. Reading through the email I discovered that some brain damaged moron decided that I belong to the category "non-registered charities and non-profit organizations (NPOs)" and PayPal therefore can't do business with me anymore. And that their decision is "final" (case "PP-001-070-523-309 (KMM5520352V28182L0KM) :ppk1"). Now, I use my PayPal account exclusively to receive donations for TortoiseSVN. The donations are used to cover the server costs and what's left at the end of the year is shared among Simon, Lübbe and me. Trying to reason with PayPal has so far been futile. They're capacity to resist any reasoning is astonishing, but I'm not giving up yet. Now, I could understand if they blocked my account because I did something wrong, but they never mentioned any wrongdoing on my part, only that they decided that I belong to that category now. And all this without any notice or warning. Something which is obviously completely bogus, because for one, they advertise using PayPal for exactly this cause, and because they allow the biggest open source hoster to do the same for all open-source projects hosted there: sourceforge.net. Any project on SF.net can opt-in to receive donations via their PayPal-account. That's more than enough prove (for me at least) that they explicitly allow using PayPal to receive donations for open-source projects. Why they decided that TSVN or I aren't allowed to do so is beyond me and they haven't (yet?) explained that. Since PayPal now holds all my money in that account hostage for at least 180 days, I'm not sure whether I can cover the server costs until then. I might have to dig into my own savings. This means (at least for now, I still hope that PayPal hired at least a few people that actually have an IQ that's over 70) that you can't make any donations to our project anymore. Stefan -- ___ oo // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net ------------------------------------------------------ http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=2660447 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
