This way to get donations is really flawed. It needs to be removed. I mean, newbies think they are being charged while advanced users just find that intrusive. This is really bad PR for FW.

Bandwidth cost much, yes. But infrastructures were created to help open source projetcs that's why sourceforge.net exists. I find the bandwidth point moot. You want to pay for the FW.com host for hosting costs of the webpage and forum? Put google adsense in the forums, this shows more respect that nearly forcing users to paypal donations. Hell, just put the donation link on the front page, I don't mind. Put a link in FW, I don't mind. But forcing people who dl FW to see donations as a nearly must is NOT good.

There are other ways to correct this. I hope It'll be corrected.

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