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OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released
Benjamin Horst writes "The volunteer effort raising $10,000 to place at least two backpage ads in New York City's free daily paper Metro is now entering its second full week. We've collected over 10% of our goal already and continue to find new pledge donors at a healthy pace. Our project's purpose is to help 'cross the chasm' and bring awareness of OpenOffice.org 2.0 to the large number of computer users who stand to benefit from its broad feature set and range of useful capabilities. This is not the first time an open source project has sought a high-profile newspaper ad buy. In fact, our effort was directly inspired by the Firefox New York Times ad. Firefox's famous effort announcing its arrival on the world stage helped push it from about 10 million downloads to its current tally of over 185 million!"
What the fuck is this retarded shit?
You're promoting this international software with the images of racist warmongers, the forefathers of the world's worst terrorist nation?
OOo owes GNU/Linux since we were the users, and still are, who did the legwork to get the project into wide scale use. With the latest release of OOo many people have been alienated due to the policy of releasing RPMs only, which showed the project leadership doesn't give a damn about those grassroots people who pushed it into use when nobody else would touch it. Now we are being given another slap in the face by not even mentioning GNU/Linux in this advert. Since the advert doesn't mention the fact that OOo works on our platform there is only one thing to do, ...uninstall it on all systems maintained by myself and anyone I know. The free lunch is over OOo, you won't be getting any more help from here.