No way to make anonymous and secure donations?

[D7Gd]

Dear Ubuntus,

I have found all of you really helpful over the years and would like to donate, but I hate the PayPals and I will never do business with them.

Why you ask? Because of things like this:


1) During 2010, WikiLeaks received €635,772.73 in PayPal donations, less €30,000 in PayPal fees, and €695,925.46 in bank transfers. €500,988.89 of the sum was received in the month of December, primarily as bank transfers as PayPal suspended payments 4 December.

2) In September 2010, PayPal froze the account of Markus Persson, developer of independent video game Minecraft. Persson stated publicly that he had not received a clear explanation of why the account was frozen, and that PayPal was threatening to keep the money if they found anything wrong. His account contained around €600,000.

More examples of their abominations can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paypal#Criticism


Therefore, I wanted to ask you:

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[coffeecat]

You've come to the wrong place. This is a forum. The members and forum staff have nothing to do with the decisions made about how donations are handled. If you feel that strongly, have a look at the contact us link on this page:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

[D7Gd]

You've come to the wrong place. This is a forum. The members and forum staff have nothing to do with the decisions made about how donations are handled. If you feel that strongly, have a look at the contact us link on this page:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Ok, I'll send them emails. Every Bitcoin user who also uses Ubuntu should do the same.

[mörgæs]

Thanks for considering to support open source.

If Paypal is not your taste you can also donate to some of the main projects separately like for example
http://donate.libreoffice.org/

[D7Gd]

Well, at least LibreOffice accepts creditcards, but again, no Bitcoin? Why, I ask. Many people would like to donate small amounts to a lot of projects they really like, but they don't do it because it takes too much time and the transaction fees eat up a large portion of the money.

Why need to eliminate leeches and ticks like Paypal, Visa, Mastercard and the like, and have a way to send money directly to the developers, not to megacorporations.

[mastablasta]

i read there is an opensource paypal like service in beta now. with less or no fees included in transfer. though it iwll take time before it evolves. forgot it's name.

[Nityanandi]

There are distinct software problems now that have made it completely impossible, for weeks, to make donations, though PayPal is acceptable.