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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!"
Or do the presidents on Mt. Rushmore look especially uneasy?
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Slower than Office? How is that possible?
http://java.sun.com/
OK, show of hands: who would trust proofreading done by this person?
I wouldn't trust his proofreading but I bet he can ask if you'd like fries with that.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
I just saved $10. It felt good. Please consider making a decent design.
Oh lord. I nobody's really going to spend $10,000 putting that garbage in a major newspaper are they? You couldn't sell free money with that ad! It looks like something spit up by a 15 year old "web designer" that does the first incarnation of most small business' websites beccause "my nephew's a computer wiz".
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Don't hit. Don't hit.
Getting a student or two at an art school to make a top notch advert worthy of a back page ad on a newspaper is really stinking easy..
Given that the credits read "Design by ..." I suspect this is exactly what they're going to do. They could have made it a bit more obvious, though.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
I don't want to be a grammar Nazi, but I think that what you meant was "you'd would."
What are you talking about? As a former graphic artist at a newspaper, I know as well as anyone that Helvetica 55 roman is where it's at!
All that ad needs is a few gradients, 1pt boxes around all the text, and some drop-shadows, and it's ready to go!
As a republican I feel it my responsibity to manufacture criminals. People need punished!
doesn't mention that it can run Linux
Maybe in Soviet Russia it can.
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... and fancy that, the project is called Openoffice. Man that is some coincidence!
Now if only there was some way we could squeeze a cliché into that.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
it looks like the ad was made with openoffice.