Re: Paypal WAS: PostgreSQL speakers needed for

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Josh:
>
> > Odd.   I was told by an Abiword person in November that the money was never
> > returned; I will contact them to clarify.
>
> OK, clarified: what Marc had *meant* was that Paypal did not cough up (or
> event respond to e-mails or faxes) until the Abiword theft story got
> slashdotted.

Not this Marc, by the way .. :)

> Still doesn't really improve my impression of PayPal ....
>
> This is similar to a discussion we had on OpenOffice.org regarding Kazaa.
> Kazaa had offered to let the OOo 1.0 distribution be a free pilot for their
> "Kazaa Gold" service.   We discussed it, and decided that participating in
> this program would be effectively putting OOo's "stamp of approval" on
> Kazaa's whole business model, of which we were not fond, and declined.
>
> 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.
>
> Of course, I could be outvoted ....

I'm still anti-Paypal, even more so after this ... I'd hate to have to see
us, at some point, having to go the same route as abiword just to get at
the money, *especially* if it is/was at a time when we were at the last
minute on something .. imagine being at the last minute on paying for a
booth at Comdex and finding out Paypal has arbitrarily locked our funds?

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