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<div id="smartTemplate4-quoteHeader"><small><font face="Tahoma"><b>From:
</b>Jim <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:squibblyflabbetydoo@gmail.com"><squibblyflabbetydoo@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:05:03 -0500<br>
<b>To: </b>Axel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:axel.grude@gmail.com"><axel.grude@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Summit Part 2: Funding -- How get
attention for a "donation"<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/10/2014 00:05, Jim wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Axel
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<div>Genius!<span><br>
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type="cite">A menuitem in the Help submenu could
work, in addition to the Start page. <br>
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</span> I would also <b>propose a TOP LEVEL menu item</b>
, for those who use the full menu, and or label in the
caption area for those who don't.<br>
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<div>This sounds like a great way to get me to stop using
Thunderbird entirely, to say nothing of contributing to
the codebase. Don't pollute primary UI with pleas for
money; it's obnoxious enough when Wikipedia does it, but
at least they only do it during designated times of the
year, and you can easily hide it.<br>
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You can use gmail instead; don't forget to install Adblock. Still, I
would like an official poll on this, I would believe most of the
users wouldn't care either way as it doesn't take away any real
estate, and I haven't heard people complain about the "Go" menu item
although probably very few use it. It is an important function to
raise money for the product and there is no inconvenience or change
of workflow attached. You will only get opposition from people who
think all Software must be "free as in beer".<br>
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If you find Wikipedia asking for money to fund themselves obnoxious
(not 3rd party advertisements) it sounds to me you prefer a product
that is funded by nobody or people who are interested in your
private information. Maybe facebook or google should foot the bill
for all software we use? After all it costs <i>nothing </i>to
share a bit of info...<br>
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If you gave the hardliner "free as in beer" users an option to
configure it away (without userChrome or <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config">about:config</a> hacks) in
order to retain the probably very low number of users that cared,
would you then agree?<br>
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