2013/11/19 Jean-Francois Nifenecker <jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net>
> Hi, > > Le 19/11/2013 04:29, NoOp a écrit : > > 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. > > > > here, if I go to http://www.libreoffice.org/ I click on the big round > Download LibreOffice Now! button, this gets me to > http://www.libreoffice.org/download where I can select the download I > want which starts (almost) immediately. No donation is required AFAICS. > There's a donation option below with the following introductory text: > "LibreOffice is Free Software and is made available free of charge. Your > donation, which is purely optional, supports our worldwide community. If > you like the software, please consider a donation." > > This is all ok for me. > > So, unless there's some other entry point which introduces a donation > before the download, I can see no problem. Or am I mistaken? > > The issue here (well, issue might not be the word), is that on some configuration, the automatic download don't trigger/is blocked by the browser. In this case, someone not akin to reading a wall of text will just see the prominent donation part of the page. But as far as the actual content of the download page is concerned, I believe the text if perfectly clear about the optionnal part of the donation. But... users ;) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
