On 11/18/2013 06:57 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.
It's irritating as hell. It makes LO look as if a donation is required (even though it says otherwise) and IMO is a bit of an embarrassment when referring LO to others. Several have commented & were sure to mention that AOO doesn't require this nonsense. I just spent 10 minutes figuring out how to bypass this nonsense in order to download a 205MB "update" for a remote user at limited bandwidth. The default download link was downloading at 45Kbps... Finally remembered the mirrors: <http://download.documentfoundation.org/mirmon/allmirrors.html> and only then was I actually able to get a reasonably speed download connection. -- 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
