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!"

Comments

For the US market only

[vandan]

The 'free people' bit raised a few chuckles around my workplace. After all the stories of the US government rapidly meeting their aim of converting the country to a fascist state, with universal surveilence of all ( including bank records ), I find it laughable that Americans still consider themselves free. There are also a plethora of countries around the world who have experienced first-hand the flip-side of US imperialist 'freedom'.

By all means - run the ads in New York. But don't show them to the rest of the world. You'll get a different reaction.

Also, why is there mention of Windows and Mac support, but no mention of Linux? Last time I checked, Mac support wasn't nearly as complete as Linux support ...