The objection wasn't to the PayPal link by itself - it was that Claude came up here and posted about it.Look, the whole open source movement revolves around donations of various sorts. It's not pan handling, it's just the way it works.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
