Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for
Date: 2004-01-06 22:00:24
Message-ID: 20040106175948.O69880@ganymede.hub.org
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Treat wrote:

> > For similar reasons, I would not favor setting up a donations account through
> > PayPal. However unlikely it is that PG would come to harm through PayPal,
> > the company has not changed its customer-abusive written policies and I would
> > not want to do anything that would encourage more people signing up with
> > them.
> >
>
> yeesh... given that AbiWord themselves still use paypal for donations
> (http://www.abisource.com/information/news/donation-abiword.phtml) I
> think that folks who avoid paypal based on that incident are off the
> mark. Not saying there aren't a lot of other reasons you might want to
> avoid using them, but if they're good enough for Abiword....

Josh, can you find out why, after everything they went through, they
decided to stick with Paypal?

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