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NYT Firefox Campaign Raises $250,000

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mo'-money-mo'-money-mo'-money dept.

ScytheBlade1 writes "The Firefox full-page NYT ad campaign finished off today with an impressive $250,000 over 10 days. Impressive to say the least, and it goes to show just how much momentum Firefox has."

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  1. woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    #18

  2. frist prost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wow new story, frist prost and hot grits.

  3. Another Victory! by frenchgates · · Score: -1, Troll

    For the idea that programming isn't a job people should actually pay you for. Yay!

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  4. Feck off! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The answer is #42 idiot...

  5. Big Mo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "...and it goes to show just how much momentum Firefox has."

    and it goes to show me that if the Mozilla project had not had their collective heads up their asses for so many years making a bloated sack of shit instead of going for a standalone browser and a standalone email client (like they have finally done with FireFox and Thunderbird) from the very getgo, then the momentum NOW would be UNBELIEVABLE...

    Repeat after me: "Less can be more, and simple IS beautiful". Rinse wetware and repeat... ad infinitum.

  6. Too bad it will fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All this will accomplish is giving more money to the man, nice going assholes. IE's domination will last forever.

  7. Red Herring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Guys. 9,567 og the 10,000 names are 'fake' . Red herring. That's the trick. If you see that 10,000 other people have contributed it's very easy to contribute too. While if you see zero, you don't. Typical basics of human phsycology.
    And why?
    First. Most people don't like browser monopoly.
    Second. Firefox (Mozilla 6.0) is not like the ultimate program of all times. There are excellent pieces of software out there that have 0 in their paypal account/sponsors. 250000 is too much.

    That's just an ad trick imo.

  8. it goes to show just how much momentum Firefox has by u-238 · · Score: 1, Troll

    On the contrary, it goes to show the monumentality of the zeal in the small concentrated minority which constitute its supporters.

  9. Re:10 days, 10,000 names, $250,000 by jadavis · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's the most distinguished newspaper in the U.S.

    Was, perhaps. Just like Dan Rather may have been respected in the past. Now the NYT is just a propoganda paper with editorials presented as "news". It's been happening for a while, but people like Jayson Blair have just made it more apparent recently.

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