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Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times
blakeross writes "Join us over at Spread Firefox as we raise funds for the most ambitious launch campaign in open source history. A portion of each donation will go towards taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times celebrating the release. All donors will be listed in the ad, the signatories of a declaration of independence from a monopolized and stagnant web."
Just make sure they don't have the ad opposite a full-page Microsoft one...
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Just made my donation...#186 according to the receipt. I think that this is going to be a great way to get out the message of browser alternatives. You can put in whatever name you want to be listed. I wonder how many times Bill Gates is going to show up?
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Disguising it as a news story? Oh, wait... Ooops, never mind...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Maybe we should rename it to Friedefox !!!
Hopefully they editors of this full page add will do a better job than the Slashdot editors did.
:)
And hopefully I won't be one of those editors either
A portion of the contribution? Exactly how much of my contribution will go towards the ad? Why not all? Call me cynical, but this sounds like a pretty good way to make some money.
/. about O/S browser needing help.
1. post story on
2. use 10% of donations towards ad.
3. PROFIT!!!
Why'd you have to pick a liberal weenie hippy paper like the NYT? Put it in the NY Post!
Free Scotland!
Why is a list of names good marketing for Firefox?
I can just see it now...
Firefox browser 1.0 released
Mario "Lightfingers" Frazetti
Dane "the Gimp" Rostenkowski
Michael "Code Monkey" Miller
Peter "Frodo" Fry
etc...
An ad for an internet browser in the print edition of a newspaper that has an online counterpart? Hummmn, at least it will look good framed on the wall, I guess...
I think what they really need over at SpreadFirefox is not more donations, but more servers and more bandwidth.
Since we all think he's the most evil thing since Sauron ruled the Middle Earth, we all do understand what a bad idea it is to take out a full page ad to tell Microsoft, by name, who their enemies are, right?
The web was a declaration of independence from a monopolized and stagnant print media.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Better idea: get a stoned chick to ask people to "switch"... that'll appeal to more people ;-)
agreed - and by the way, do you know how much faster i can read the NYTimes website since I installed Gentoo? My G4 Gentoo PPC is really fast since I included the new "FastRead" USE variable.
Gent00 R0cks!!
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I don't know many newspapers that support quadraphonic audio, or any audio for that matter. It's a friggin' paper!
LOAD "SIG",8,1
Something about an officially branded Firefox Stripper... Oooh! We could market it in Playboy! For porn! And we can show people's favorite porn pages! Without popups!
(That was meant to be funny, but now it's starting to look kinda legitimate... :-)
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
Maybe a security system which isn't the equivalent of a locked door in a corn field would be in order.
I was picturing the toll both in Blazing Saddles.
"We're going to need a shitload of dimes!"
Bah!
This is the DoD we are taking about. You haven't seen management by ostrich (head in the sand, ass in the air with bullseye target painted on) until you've worked at the DoD.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Dear Sean,
As with most IT folk, we spend a great deal of time reading slashdot. Thank you for pointing out the FireFox security compromise. And consider your blessing revoked.
Regards,
DoD IT guy
Apart from Slashdot, I can't find a page that doesn't render just fine in Firefox
Slashdot needs an "Ironic" moderation option.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Yeah, yeah, yeah. citibank.com may work in Firefox, but citi-bank.com requires IE.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Because th Times has a very broad Nation Wide readership that actually spans a very broad demographic. Wheras no one bright enough to tell the difference between thier browser and their desktop actually "reads" USA Today other than giving a quick glance at the sports after they trip over it on the way out of thier hotel room. Mostly because there isn't a lot there to actually read. USA Today is utterly worthless...
Newspapers are a depreciated and out dated medium. It is far to often I look at a newspaper story and say, that happended 18 hours ago, there have been numerous updates sense.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
"Practically" a religion? Just thank Marc that you're not being proselytized by the Church of Emacs.
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
citi-bank.com does not resolve according to nslookup.
Well I get new product recommendations on slashdot all the time. Heh. You damn geeks making me spend my hard-earned student loans.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Ohh, sorry I was kind of trying to be funny to. The ridiculousness of expecting news to be less that 18 hours old was suppose to be funny. Sorry.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Why invest in a newspaper ad when we could reach our audience through cheap popup ads?