Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON
Date: 2004-01-06 02:19:15
Message-ID: 3FFA1B23.1030603@commandprompt.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:

>Guys,
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>>and FWIW, I've never had any Paypal problems.
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>Most of us are remembering the Abiword debacle, where a someone robbed
>Abiword's donations account by exploiting a known flaw in Paypal's system,
>and when the Abiword people complained Paypal cancelled their account and
>threatened them with litigation. Despite the change of management at Paypal,
>neither an apology nor a restoration of funds has been made to Abiword.
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That is not true. Paypal did return the money, see:

http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2002/awn115.phtml

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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