What's the Oolite website worth?

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Afraid I don't have a Paypal account. Is there any other way to donate?
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Loxley wrote:
Afraid I don't have a Paypal account. Is there any other way to donate?
Click the image below, then use the 'Don't have a Paypal account' option to enter your credit or debit card details.

Thanks once more for everyone's kind help.

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I looked for this thread using the search tool as soon as I saw the Cafepress link in the website but didn't find it (the search tool in the BB is next to useless).

So I created a separate thread. I have since killed that thread and I am posting the question here now that I have stumbled on this one:

Is putting this link http://www.cafepress.com/oolite in the links page of Oolite's website really a good idea? Yes Giles should have the money. I am not saying anything against that. But as Oolite is really a derivative of Elite's intellectual property that exists because no one profits from it. Braben's could easily shut us down, after all isn't that what happened to Elite:TNK when money got involved? I just don't want to see us getting shut down.

If Braben isn't going to care about this tiny amount of money I'm all for it btw.
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I'm utterly overwhelmed by the donations people have made.

Thank you, everyone. There's a bit of cash left over in my account, which I'll put towards next year's costs.

I don't know how to thank you properly. :oops:
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this is the players trying to thank you for enriching our lives with oolite.
I still need a way to thank ahruman...
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Cmdr James wrote:
I still need a way to thank ahruman...
Send him a couple of really difficult to track down bug reports, he loves them! :D
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Griff wrote:
Send him a couple of really difficult to track down bug reports, he loves them! :D
Can’t I have some of the other type for once?
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Ahruman wrote:
Griff wrote:
Send him a couple of really difficult to track down bug reports, he loves them! :D
Can’t I have some of the other type for once?
Where are you at precisely in Sweden..

Malmö or Göteborg as far as I remember, however search throws up little..

Then I could send you cookies :- )..
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PhantorGorth wrote:
I looked for this thread using the search tool as soon as I saw the Cafepress link in the website but didn't find it (the search tool in the BB is next to useless).
I also can't use the inbuilt search tool very well, however I find Google very helpful. I have the Google toolbar installed and I do a search using the following:

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searchterm site:aegidian.org/bb/
Using the site: parameter to limit the results to the BB is a good tip!
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£4,500 though! :shock: <Faints>
Cheers,
Drew.
Maybe you could start a Kickstarter Campaign to found your £4500 pledge. 8)
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Post by Diziet Sma »

Good idea JazHaz!

I took you idea and ran with it, and have made a browser search plugin that lets you use Google to search the Oolite BB directly from your browser search tool.

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=7674
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