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.kn...@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!
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