Hi :) I am guessing you haven't looked at the official LibreOffice downloads page for several months. Yes it is Free but to a new person it looks like we are demanding money, until they spot the clues. Still the default donation set on the page is $10 which even i could probably pay without too much angst = especially when compared with some of the alternatives! Regards from Tom :)
On 18 November 2013 18:01, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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! > > --doug > > -- > Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. > --A.M.Greeley > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
