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MikeCapone writes "Heavy coffee-drinking Mozilla fans take notice, MozillaZine has a story on how some coffee company has dedicated a selection of gourmet coffees to helping the Mozilla foundation. Only half the profits go to Mozilla, but the coffee seems good..."
As a heavy coffee drinker and equally heavy Mozilla user this seems like a good deal!
1/2 is a significant %, compared to the typical promotion offering a % to non-profit causes.
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When they promised better java support for mozilla
what are the chances of getting starbucks to purchase wholesale mozilla beans from these guys and getting this stuff to the true heavy coffee drinking masses?
i love coffee! i will buy alot!
What about the coffee farmers?
;-)
Do they get a fair share?
First things first, I'd say
Definite grounds for a brewhaha
This looks like a terrible idea.
Sounds like the perfect gift for my company. We're IT, and everyone I know here drinks coffee. Looks like I'll be Mr. Popular for a few days before the coffee runs out. Hmmm, mark me down for a 100 lbs, that should last for a day or so..
crack dealers are giving half their profits to SCO. Say dealers, "They're some of our most loyal patrons, it only seems fair."
Mozilla doesn't need coffee. It needs scissors to cut out all the pointless redundant lines of code that cause the "Web browser" to take two millon years to compile. A web browser, IMO, should be stripped to only what it needs. This is one area in which Microsoft has got it right.
Red Lizard Ale sounds nice to me. Anybody got some connections with Anheuser Busch, Miller, or Coors to get some real $$$ rolling into the project?
Homer: So what do you call this stuff?
Barney: A double tall mocha latte.
Homer: It's not bad. (quietly spikes his drink)
Barney: Well, it ain't beer, but at least I got that monkey off my back. (quickly gulps down four cups, then burps)
(Cut to Moe)
Moe: Heh, heh, nobody gets away from Moe. Nobody.
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Does anyone know if this is fair trade coffee?
I see that it's possible to buy organic coffee, but I can't find a word about the origin of this coffee, and the farmers that produced it.
If this is no fair trade coffee, that I don't want to buy this: fair trade, and a right price for the farmers is still much more important to me than the Mozilla project...
After all, the concept of fair trade is something that should go well with the Mozilla ideals, isn't it??
Then again, you could buy your coffee elsewhere, at less RIDICULOUS prices, and instead donate directly to mozilla.org.
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That's great, except that they forgot to tell us how much money half the profit actually is. Prepare for the lame "Uhm, sorry, but actually we made zero profit with that coffee." excuses.
the expense of the farmers?
could someone tell me the definition of a slow news day?
oh no wait i think i got it.
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Here's a link to the story on MozillaZine: Link
does this version of mozilla coffee come with a coffeemaker? or the kitchen sink?
a gigantic lizard jumped up on caffeine
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
that the coffee is actually going to be given away for free to help the homeless population in New York City..
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As a side note, I have found coffee strength in different countries to be interesting. I'm from N. America, and when I moved to the Czech Republic, my collegues would allows comment on how strong I made the coffee (they would also make 1/2 liter of tea with ONE tea bag--When I makes tea, I makes tea. When I makes water, I makes water--Finnegans Wake).
Then I moved to Sweden. My in-laws quickly informed me that they only drink Skona roast by Zeagas (a VERY strong coffee blend) and showed me how to make it at their incredibly high strength level. All of my corporate English student who have been to the U.S. complains about the piss-weakness of the coffee there.
- Stomach problems.
- Migraine.
- High blood pressure.
- Addiction to caffeine.
I think it's irresponsible to raise money for OSS by that way. As the cathechism of the catholic church teaches us: an action will be evil even its goal is good when evil actions are committed for reaching this goal.I mean: there are zillions of other, good ways to raise money for OSS. You could e.g. sell t-shirts or tea instead.
So there is really no need to sell coffee.
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I'm surprised no one has thought of this before. We should support those that support open software.
A retailer brands a product with Mozilla (or Linux, etc.), gives a large portion of the profit to the community, and advertises that they do it.
The problem with previous implementations is that people don't buy too many T-shirts or mugs or things.
Those that buy coffee buy lots of it. How about a bottled water for OpenOffice.org, or a line of soda for AbiWord?
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...to stop drinking coffee and send all the money to them instead.
This would be much better for your health and for the project.
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I'm glad to see our addiction become our support, but I won't be satisfied till they release the source code to that "Worldly Lizard" blend, and pass it under the GPL...
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A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
Mention the bad effects of coffee and the good logic of religion, and you're destined to get modded down. Watch this post too... -1 Troll.
Of course, I'm sure I will also get 10 or so replies making various comments about the misdeeds of the catholic church over the years, blah blah... and all I have to say to them is:
<Jesus>Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake; Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven.</Jesus>
Seems to me that "fair" is whatever they're able to get for it on the free market. Otherwise, there's some kind of favoritism/inverse rationing going on, which is hardly "fair" since not everyone is allowed to compete.
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We start by selecting 100% arabica beans from the worlds finest coffee growers. The coffee beans are then carefully roasted in small batches by our Master Roaster according to his exacting specifications and delivered to your front door.
We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger.
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So I can't order. :( Too bad, I was about to buy a couple of pounds.
Why would I want to support a bloated sack of shit browser. My money is better spent on Opera.
anybody else noticed how they mispelled "site" as "sight" at the bottom?
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tell 'em ROBBie. you're not really won of them?
Remember how Stan Lee got nothing from the spiderman movies? ( /. story here) It's all a matter of creative accounting.
That is always the case, do not confuse it with "half of what you pay for it".
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Will Starbucks give you a free CD with the Mozilla code for every Moccha Macademia Nut Frappucino? Both is good stuff anyway...
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Man, I cant drink that mozilla coffee. It bloats me up.
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RJ Tarpleys is basically cashing in on the latest buzzwords so they can use it in advertising but not really giving anything back. They're making a profit at the expense of Open Source developers without "getting it". How much code have they really given back?
(Ok now re-read the above statement, substituting "Apple" or "Sun" or whatever company you want that embraces open source but not everything they do is Open Source and makes a tidy profit on it (i.e. is "evil"))
I admit I'm skeptical. Are they a company that truly believes in OpenSource and this is their goodwill gesture? Or are they trying to cash in Open Source mania (lol) to make a profit.
It's a slippery slope. After all, doesn't buying an iPod support *BSD, KHTML, Zeroconf and others. Since developers listen to music a lot, shouldn't we all buy iPods because some of the profits go to some great Open Source projects?
I stopped drinking coffee a year ago because I've developed over sensitivity of caffeine. Don't ask how. I just know that if I drink a cup, I will have problem sleeping and if I drink two or more I start to shake like an old man with the Parkinsons disease.
:)
I found that tea doesn't give me that effect eventhough it contains chemicals which are caffeine cousins.
So, Lipton or any other tea maker - care to make a new label?
So they donate some of their profits in turn have an endless number of slasdot readers see their name, we buy a bag, i think they are banking on the number of bags sold making up for the lost profits. then they get great publicity on slashdot. somebody in their marketing will either get a fat bonus if it works or a boot to the curb if it flops
At least read the /. piece!! 1/2 of it goes to Mozilla, HALF!!! That is a lot of the price of that 10 dollar coffee when you use your brain cells to compute it!
From their "Info" page:
No, the square brackets are not editing on my part. That's what it actually says. :-)
I might just drop him a polite word...
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Though the recipe for their soft drink is still GPL'd; I've not seen many feature requests or bug fixes flowing into the community. Mayhap because it never had a bugzilla properly set-up and checking soda into CVS is difficult.
On the other hand people who drink coffee are much less likely to commit suicide. If you avoid all the unhealthy pleasures in life then your body might wind up in better shape, but you will wish you were dead.
When's the last time you went to starbucks? Their whole bean coffee is about 15$ a bag around here.
On University of Michigan's central campus alot of students raised a fuss and got the local coffee shops to offer fair trade coffee.
;)
Maybe someone should do the same for Mozilla coffee on the engineering campus. There are only two coffee shops up there and they go through ALOT of coffee. Besides, its all the EECS kids loading up on coffee before the shops close anyway
Isn't this a great way to advertise? Instead of spending $500,000 a week for a TV spot on a national network, which is impossible for such a small business, you devote a small portion of your profits to an open-source software project, let Slashdot hear about it, and several million geeks have heard about your coffee and visited your website. People like your ethos, so they'll buy your coffee regardless of whether it's good or not.
Then again, maybe I'm just a cynical little shit with no faith in American business.
Loved it. They should also provide a skin. That'd be cool.
They are running FreeBSD. This sort of pandering doesn't really do much for me, but at least these guys aren't pitching their 'Mozilla Coffee' with IIS.
Choice?
They ban US GM foods. Labelling isn't enough for Europe. They take away the choice from consumers.
"Fair Trade" is just a label, like "coffee". If "Fair Trade coffee" becomes big, then producers will figure out how to exploit the producers just like they did with "coffee".
I do encourage choice though. I just think some people are a little too easily sold on an unsupportable idea.
"...only half of the profits..."
/your/ glass is half empty. I got a horse I wanna give you, you wanna peek in his mouth?
What? Man, I can see that
Half of something is better than 10% of something, which is better than half of *nothing*.
Just say "Thank You" to the nice man and move on.
I "clicked through" and made a purchase before even reading the comments (is it poor form to admit to reading the /. comments?).
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...against Mormons?
I wonder, does it have anything to do with SCO being in Utah?
I have a life. I really do. I've just chosen to ignore it.
Yeah, thats right, you hear it in the name...read the subject!
So, don't let anyone ever tell you that Microsoft didn't support java.
You should try the "Mollbergs blandning" also from Zoega, it's as strong as (legal) coffe gets :O)
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Juan Valdez is an idiot. The man's in Columbia and he's growing *COFFEE!!!??*
"Only half the profits"? That's a huge percentage.
Admittedly it does matter how they calculate profit (I'd guess minimally ( sale price - (cost-of-goods + cost of employee time per shipment) ).
Are you insane?
If half of the profits go to Mozilla, I'm wondering if the owner is RMS himself!
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.
Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
1 pound = 453.59237 grams, so at $9.50/pound a kilogram would cost over 20 bucks.
Holy shit...at such prices, that coffee'd better be damn good! I buy coffee for like $6 - $8 or something.
However, it's a nice publicity stunt, and hopefully a good way to earn some bucks for the Mozilla foundation.
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I just put in my order for 1lb. of the Non-decaf, whole-bean vareties. Considering that I pay about $10-11 per lb anyway, this is a pretty good deal. Now, if a Micro-brew would do the same...
Uh, wasn't that Ulysses?
Which is more than Mozilla ever made anyway...
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
Anyone else use these beans? http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/3261/
I prefer Mountain Dew for my caffeine fix.
Man, I cant drink that mozilla coffee. It bloats me up.
Maybe they should have a Mozilla Firebird coffee.
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Either way, the Mozilla Org gets money that it probably wouldn't have got otherwise, and you've got coffee.
I think this offsets any problem...
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I agree. I shouldn't have written that... 50% *is* huge.
Oh well, too late now...
I'm just glad that some people are supporting the Mozilla Foundation. I think they're doing a great job, especially with Firebird.
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So you've actually seen this coffee? Wow!
I think that's a wonderful idea. Lots of mozilla users drink coffee, and mozilla is struggling. Great idea tho
Does anyone know what part of the lizard they use to make this coffee out of?
"Now, if a Micro-brew would do the same..."
Well I figure $1 a pint Thursdays at the local uBrew allow me to send some extra money to my favorite charities.
I want my 100% Peaberry Kona.
The coffee growers' problem isn't eeevil capitalists exploiting them; it's that US and European farmers are so heavily subsidized that world markets are flooded with anything they can grow at artificially low prices.
If you're a 3rd world farmer, one good way to avoid getting crushed by these subsidies is to grow coffee, which won't grow in northern climates. Unfortunately, there isn't that big a coffee market, and once enough folks cut over to coffee the price collapsed. It's still more money than they'd make selling corn, though...
Here, the "Fair Trade" label helps a socially conscientious consumer to avoid exploitative producers. or encourage them. :)
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It reminds me of the confectionary store sketch from monty pthon. I don't have a link, and If I tried to quote the whole thing, i'd buther it.
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I ordered some of the Mozilla coffee (Worldly Lizard Blend).
It arrived via US Mail in a few days and it's very good if you prefer a hearty, strong blend.
I like it.
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