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Drink Coffee, Support Mozilla
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.
When they promised better java support for mozilla
What about the coffee farmers?
;-)
Do they get a fair share?
First things first, I'd say
Definite grounds for a brewhaha
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."
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?
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Barney: A double tall mocha latte.
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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.
So we need active X and scripting vulnerabilities? o_0
does this version of mozilla coffee come with a coffeemaker? or the kitchen sink?
a gigantic lizard jumped up on caffeine
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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.
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...
maybe true..
BUT...
most puter geeks drink coffee by the gallon anyway despite any health risks...
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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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"most puter geeks drink coffee by the gallon anyway"
Drink coffee???? I gave that up years ago.
"Oh nurse, my IV caffeine drip is falling out again".
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anybody else noticed how they mispelled "site" as "sight" at the bottom?
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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I'm confused. When did the Catholic Church start forbidding coffee?
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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.
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
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)
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.
Actually, caffiene is one of the treatments for headaches. Look at the ingrediants for Excedrin (a medicine for migraine headaches), and it contains caffiene.
Caffiene withdrawals, on the other hand, can cause headaches...
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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.
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.
"...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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The GM food is banned in Europe right now because US corps refuse to have their products labelled as GM. They'd rather not import the products at all and try to force the issue through WTO. Labelling is EU's only requirement.
BOO! TERRO
No Europe has required GM foods to be clearly marked, but since the marking system hasnt been finished yet, this has been an effective ban and punished as such.
The system has been delayed since US producers refuse to track the origins of their products, and there has therefore been a risk of having to label all US food products as GM. The US government ofcourse objected to this thus delaying the new system.
...against Mormons?
I wonder, does it have anything to do with SCO being in Utah?
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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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"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) ).
Thats more due to a number of things . .) .Some pain killers can make you very drowsy , caffine helps to counter act those affects temporarly .
Caffine speeds up the reaction time of most medicines (I take my pain killers with coffee and it works a bit faster
Caffine in and off its self doesnt help a headache , if any thing in can make it worse (if you forget to drink enough water. Caffine causes you to become dehyradated in large amounts and dehydration isnt the best way to make the pain in your head go away) .
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...
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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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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