Did you know that money from those donations is available for the community to use for everything from attending conferences to hosting loco events?
http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/ Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com On 01/16/2014 04:52 AM, Brian Burger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com > <mailto:bkere...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: > > I think he is confused by the Donation Splash page that comes up. > > > Good Lord, that's actually a thing. Go through from the front page, > following the various "Download Ubuntu/Get Ubuntu" links, and eventually > you get a page with a set of sliders to choose how you divvy up your > donation, a very prominent "Pay with Paypal" button at the lower-right, > and a significantly less prominent, "No, just download Ubuntu" link off > to the bottom left. If you're scanning quickly for the actual download > link or just clicking through waiting for a download to start, it's not > hard to miss the "free download" button. > > That's at about the same level of "service" as some of the skeevier > random file-sharing websites I've occasionally tripped over. Nicely > done, Canonical. > > The last large number of years I've just gone straight to > releases.ubuntu.com <http://releases.ubuntu.com> when I needed a new > shiny ISO. Hadn't realized the front-end was so distasteful. Not > impressed. It's a good thing Ubuntu itself is so awesome, a lot of the > rest of what Canonical gets up to leaves a bad taste in my mouth. > > Brian. > > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
