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Drink Coffee, Support Mozilla

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

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..."

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  1. 1/2 is HUGE by squashed · · Score: 5, Informative

    1/2 is a significant %, compared to the typical promotion offering a % to non-profit causes.

    1. Re:1/2 is HUGE by Accipiter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I thought of the 100% to Mozilla argument.

      It's good in the fact that 100% of the money goes to Mozilla, but on the other hand, where's the attention? By actually promoting Mozilla via the coffee purchase, not only are you donating to Mozilla, you're telling the company "Hey, this is a good idea. You're doing good here." and you're promoting the attention the project receives as a result. And just maybe, it could encourage others to do the same.

      Donations don't get press coverage unless they're in ridiculously large amounts. But when a company has pledged to donate a portion of its profits to a worthy cause, it gets more attention.

      Which is why this story is on Mozillazine and Slashdot. A simple donation wouldn't have done that.

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  2. Not quite what I had in mind... by cnb · · Score: 5, Funny

    When they promised better java support for mozilla

  3. Hmmm Max Havelaar... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about the coffee farmers?

    Do they get a fair share?

    First things first, I'd say ;-)

  4. And in other news, by grug0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    crack dealers are giving half their profits to SCO. Say dealers, "They're some of our most loyal patrons, it only seems fair."

  5. Fair trade coffee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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??

  6. Good deal... by Seehund · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then again, you could buy your coffee elsewhere, at less RIDICULOUS prices, and instead donate directly to mozilla.org.

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    1. Re:Good deal... by zulux · · Score: 5, Informative

      This cofees is *NOT* expensive - good shade-grown organic cofee is well woth $10 a pound. A lot of effort, time and care goes into the product, and the results are outstanding.

      Folgers is about $4.50 a poind, and this cofee is more that 10 times better - in armoa, taste, and in good-will (suporting non-plantation growers that care about the product.)

      I'm not an environmentalist wacko - with the typical cofee plantations (in South America) are terrible for our environment. Basically they slash and burn, orver fertalise, the mechanically harverst - and once there done with that peice of land they move on to the next bit of rain-forest.

      $10 is nothing for us computer programers - it takes you an extra three minutes to earn the diferance and the results are worth it.

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  7. How much is half the profit by Bananenrepublik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  8. Great, just what we need by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    a gigantic lizard jumped up on caffeine

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  9. Flavored by vonFinkelstien · · Score: 5, Informative
    Now if they only offered some nice flavored coffees in the Mozilla Coffee section (and cheap shipping to Sweden).

    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.

  10. Re:Needs a beer by SW6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

    Cool idea, but wouldn't it be better if you approached some beer producers instead?