On 1/8/24 13:09, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
noah poulton <noahpoult...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys!
I was wondering, is there a way to donate to Debian via direct debit?
I want to to donate but I don't have a paypal account (and I don't
really want to create one).
I live in the UK (if that makes a difference).
Clicking on the paypal link doesn't mean you need to create a paypal
account. It's just a payment service and you can use your regular
credit card details. I agree it would be better for Debian to use some
other payment service though!
I agree 200%, as a broadcast engineer working for an outfit that had
several b-cast properties all over the country, and good at putting out
tech fires, I was flown halfway across the country to put out the fires
caused by an incompetent EE that was on the missing list, he found a
woman and had basically abandoned his duties. So I got shipped to
western Colorado, with instructions to see if I could fix the commercial
player for a 4 channel one control room complex. Which I had diagnosed
as a dead scsi card 30 minutes after getting off the airplane.
So I go to the CE's office and using his windows xp computer which it
turns out was setup by the local ISP with a pretty tight lockdown. But I
eventually get to ebay and buy a card for about $50. I had all the data
I needed to prove it was me accessing my account to pay the guy, but I
was a hacker and the transaction was blocked because I wasn't coming in
from my home computer 1700 miles east. This failure was costing us about
$50k a day in lost revenue so speed was prime, but it took me calling
Seattle after figuring out what the problem was, threatening a lawsuit
at $100k/day in damages to finally get paypal to pay the guy a measly
$50. They turned a next day fix into 6 days.
I have a very long memory for such, and have not used paypal since. If
my card isn't any good, no sale. 30 years later I run into the paypal
only thing on the debian donate page and back out. Debian has been good
to me, and I have enough machines running it or some variation that
since I'm a firm believer in TANSTAAFL, me putting a kilo in the kitty,
no strings attached, is not out of line. But it won't come thru paypal.
If that paypal only policy ever changes, please advise this list. I am
subbed.
Thanks for reading another of my war stories. Take care, stay warm and
well all.
Thanks,
Noah Poulton.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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- Louis D. Brandeis
