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dkulchenko on Oct 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you thin...

Canonical is commercial, the Ubuntu Foundation is not: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation. Ubuntu's been accepting donations for quite a while, long before they added this.

recoiledsnake on Oct 10, 2012 [–]

The PayPal donation page says Canonical Ltd, so it looks like it's not the Ubuntu Foundation that's taking the money.

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