Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet

hankaholic writes "I was checking into the latest progress of the Freenet project when I noticed a disturbing note on their homepage: 'Paypal has frozen the account we use to accept donations over the web, they refuse to give any reason other than "use of an anonymous proxy" [...] all of the projects subscriptions have been canceled which is a significant setback. Other means of accepting donations, including E-Gold, are still active.' Paypal is sending them a check for their remaining balance. The news update on the Freenet homepage also includes contact information for some people at Paypal."

Comments

this is GOOD news.

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Because Freenet was going the wrong way for the last year and a half - from a promising open source project with great importance to the comunity it had degenerated into a ploy to keep Matthew Toseland, a mediocre developer employed and paid.

Many other Freenet developers left because of mr. Toseland's inability to tolerate difference in opinion, egotism and overal attitude problems. Under his influence, Freenet took the path of the closed source projects - pump out new features, do not debug existing ones, do not provide support, all for the single goal of profit.

I'm glad Paypal did this, in the long run it will be better for Freenet. For now, please do not donate anything until Ian Clarke takes charge of his own project and mends the situation.

9 cases out of 10

[Anonymous Coward]

in 9 cases out of 10 (at least for me) the customer is the one trying to screw me over.

So in the other 1 out of 10 cases, it's you trying to screw the customer over? Well, thanks for being honest.

Re:Slashdot Uses PayPal

[zoloto]

either I'm failing to get the sarcasm, as i usually do, or you are flamebait waiting to be run over.