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."

Comments

Public needs to change to make the change...

[garcia]

"A declaration of independence from a stagnant web." Now that's an interesting statement. Perhaps a stagnant browser market or a stagnant browser war but the web certainly isn't stagnant. Hopefully they editors of this full page add will do a better job than the Slashdot editors did.

Personally I don't care for Firefox as the rest of the web doesn't really support it and pages don't render correctly. Firefox will not be THE player until the day that people start writing pages that work under Firefox, ignore IE's "quirks", and when they start to understand what spyware is, how to defend against it, and how to get rid of it.

I have very little faith that the public cares enough to do any of those things.

Re:Public needs to change to make the change...

[garcia]

It already can properly render most of the web. Also if a web page is actually broken, there is no way to properly render it. At best you can best guess what maybe it is supposed to be.

Yet none of the page fonts look the way they do under IE. Under IE the page fonts look clean and crisp. Under Firefox they look like blocky text. Reminds me of what Netscape and Mozilla looked like under X.

People are going to switch from IE and load their favorite page. The page isn't going to look as good and people are going to run. That's the problem and I don't think that the Firefox team necessarily wants that to happen.

Login Required..

[BitwiseX]

to buy NYT and view ad.

yay

[stilist]

Ought to be interesting to see how dorky this comes out...

Nope, money is not for ad.

[DraconPern]

They will soon make an annoucement that says the money will go toward a new server instead.

Re:How much?

[bleckywelcky]

This made me wonder if spreadfirefox.com was just some guy looking to make a quick buck off the community.

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Domain Name.......... spreadfirefox.com
Creation Date........ 2004-07-22
Registration Date.... 2004-07-22
Expiry Date.......... 2006-07-22
Organisation Name.... Mozilla Foundation
Organisation Address. P.O. Box 13616
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Stanford
Organisation Address. 94309
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

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Admin Address........ P.O. Box 13616
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Re:Slashdot not Adage?

[AuMatar]

I do. Basic rule of thumb- if I see an advertisement for your product I did not ask for (signing up for a mailing list or the like), thats a minimum of 2 weeks I will not buy your products for. Depends ont he venue:

radio ads- 2 weeks
tv ads- 1 month
snail mail spam- 2 months
magazine/newpaper ad- 6 months
email spam- lifetime ban
popup- lifetime ban