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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:56AM from the well-thats-something-i-guess dept.

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."

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Watch out! (Score:4, Funny)

by Paster Of Muppets ( 787158 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:58AM (#10565139)

Just make sure they don't have the ad opposite a full-page Microsoft one...

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#186 (Score:3, Funny)

by bblazer ( 757395 ) * writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:58AM (#10565142) Homepage Journal

Just made my donation...#186 according to the receipt. I think that this is going to be a great way to get out the message of browser alternatives. You can put in whatever name you want to be listed. I wonder how many times Bill Gates is going to show up?

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Why not advertize for FREE on Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)

by mi ( 197448 ) writes: <slashdot-2017q4@virtual-estates.net> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:58AM (#10565143) Homepage Journal

Disguising it as a news story? Oh, wait... Ooops, never mind...

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Ad (Score:2, Funny)

by simgod ( 563459 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @10:59AM (#10565153)

Maybe we should rename it to Friedefox !!!

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Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:2, Funny)

by garcia ( 6573 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:00AM (#10565170)

Hopefully they editors of this full page add will do a better job than the Slashdot editors did.

And hopefully I won't be one of those editors either :)

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Re:Watch out! (Score:2, Funny)

by 91degrees ( 207121 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:00AM (#10565178) Journal

Why? This would probably make the ad more effective.

MS: Buy Microsoft. What else is there?
Firefox: Don't! You have a choice.

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How much? (Score:4, Funny)

by JordanArendt ( 164158 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:01AM (#10565199) Homepage

A portion of the contribution? Exactly how much of my contribution will go towards the ad? Why not all? Call me cynical, but this sounds like a pretty good way to make some money.

1. post story on /. about O/S browser needing help.
2. use 10% of donations towards ad.
3. PROFIT!!!

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uuummm... (Score:2, Funny)

by bmalnad ( 808193 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:06AM (#10565279) Homepage

Why'd you have to pick a liberal weenie hippy paper like the NYT? Put it in the NY Post!

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Am I missing something? (Score:5, Funny)

by revery ( 456516 ) * writes: <charles@NoSpam.cac2.net> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:09AM (#10565324) Homepage

Why is a list of names good marketing for Firefox?

I can just see it now...

Firefox browser 1.0 released
Mario "Lightfingers" Frazetti
Dane "the Gimp" Rostenkowski
Michael "Code Monkey" Miller
Peter "Frodo" Fry
etc...

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Hang on... (Score:2, Funny)

by sorrowfloats ( 748011 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:10AM (#10565343)

An ad for an internet browser in the print edition of a newspaper that has an online counterpart? Hummmn, at least it will look good framed on the wall, I guess...

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What they really need... (Score:2, Funny)

by scifience ( 674659 ) * writes: <webmaster@scifience.net> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:11AM (#10565358) Homepage

I think what they really need over at SpreadFirefox is not more donations, but more servers and more bandwidth.

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Re:Watch out! (Score:5, Funny)

by beacher ( 82033 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:12AM (#10565381) Homepage

It's nice that they're taking out an ad for FireFox, but let me know when they manage to get a full page spread of Samantha Fox

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Great... pay to be on Bill Gates' enemy list! (Score:5, Funny)

by BenJeremy ( 181303 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:22AM (#10565510)

Since we all think he's the most evil thing since Sauron ruled the Middle Earth, we all do understand what a bad idea it is to take out a full page ad to tell Microsoft, by name, who their enemies are, right?

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I remember when (Score:3, Funny)

by DrSkwid ( 118965 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:27AM (#10565596) Journal

The web was a declaration of independence from a monopolized and stagnant print media.

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too much reading... (Score:4, Funny)

by Quixote ( 154172 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:28AM (#10565607) Homepage Journal

Better idea: get a stoned chick to ask people to "switch" [apple.com]... that'll appeal to more people ;-)

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Re:Wow nice incenvitve. (Score:5, Funny)

by passthecrackpipe ( 598773 ) * writes: <passthecrackpipe@@@hotmail...com> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:30AM (#10565635)

agreed - and by the way, do you know how much faster i can read the NYTimes website since I installed Gentoo? My G4 Gentoo PPC is really fast since I included the new "FastRead" USE variable.

Gent00 R0cks!!

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Re:Sheesh... (Score:2, Funny)

by Rev Wally ( 814101 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:30AM (#10565640) Homepage

(in full quadraphonic audio if available)
I don't know many newspapers that support quadraphonic audio, or any audio for that matter. It's a friggin' paper!

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Re:Watch out! (Score:5, Funny)

by seanadams.com ( 463190 ) * writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:35AM (#10565707) Homepage

Apple ran a great ad in the SJ Mercury when Windows 95 came out. It was a full two pages that just said:

CONGRATU.LNS

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Re:Grassroots Marketing (Score:5, Funny)

by lpangelrob2 ( 721920 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:40AM (#10565761) Journal

Or, alternatively, try to get Firefox banned for violating obscenity laws...
Something about an officially branded Firefox Stripper... Oooh! We could market it in Playboy! For porn! And we can show people's favorite porn pages! Without popups!
(That was meant to be funny, but now it's starting to look kinda legitimate... :-)

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Re:Ironically enough... (Score:5, Funny)

by Tobias Luetke ( 707936 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:46AM (#10565842)

Maybe a security system which isn't the equivalent of a locked door in a corn field would be in order.

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Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Funny)

by dzelenka ( 630044 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @11:53AM (#10565936) Journal

I was picturing the toll both in Blazing Saddles.

"We're going to need a shitload of dimes!"

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Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Funny)

by Jah-Wren Ryel ( 80510 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:06PM (#10566102)

This is the DoD we are taking about. You haven't seen management by ostrich (head in the sand, ass in the air with bullseye target painted on) until you've worked at the DoD.

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IT guys read slashdot too (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:17PM (#10566230)

Dear Sean,
As with most IT folk, we spend a great deal of time reading slashdot. Thank you for pointing out the FireFox security compromise. And consider your blessing revoked.

Regards,
DoD IT guy

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Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:3, Funny)

by Megaweapon ( 25185 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:20PM (#10566260) Homepage

Apart from Slashdot, I can't find a page that doesn't render just fine in Firefox

Slashdot needs an "Ironic" moderation option.

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Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:5, Funny)

by Elwood P Dowd ( 16933 ) writes: <judgmentalist@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:20PM (#10566266) Journal

Yeah, yeah, yeah. citibank.com may work in Firefox, but citi-bank.com requires IE.

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Re:Why the Times? (Score:2, Funny)

by BlindRobin ( 768267 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:33PM (#10566452)

Because th Times has a very broad Nation Wide readership that actually spans a very broad demographic. Wheras no one bright enough to tell the difference between thier browser and their desktop actually "reads" USA Today other than giving a quick glance at the sports after they trip over it on the way out of thier hotel room. Mostly because there isn't a lot there to actually read. USA Today is utterly worthless...

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Re:Sheesh... (Score:3, Funny)

by ArsonSmith ( 13997 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:41PM (#10566534) Journal

Newspapers are a depreciated and out dated medium. It is far to often I look at a newspaper story and say, that happended 18 hours ago, there have been numerous updates sense.

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you must be new around here. (Score:3, Funny)

by KnightStalker ( 1929 ) writes: <map_sort_map@yahoo.com> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:00PM (#10566777) Homepage

"Practically" a religion? Just thank Marc that you're not being proselytized by the Church of Emacs.

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citi-bank.com??? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:29PM (#10567661)

citi-bank.com does not resolve according to nslookup.

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Peer-based forums are the way of the future (Score:2, Funny)

by linzeal ( 197905 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:43PM (#10567781) Journal

Well I get new product recommendations on slashdot all the time. Heh. You damn geeks making me spend my hard-earned student loans.

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Re:Sheesh... (Score:3, Funny)

by ArsonSmith ( 13997 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:45PM (#10567801) Journal

Ohh, sorry I was kind of trying to be funny to. The ridiculousness of expecting news to be less that 18 hours old was suppose to be funny. Sorry.

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Re:Watch out! (Score:2, Funny)

by tsch ( 593024 ) writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @03:36PM (#10568409)

Yes it was. It also ran in the Seattle Times, and I put it up on the wall in my room.
Hanging such a thing up on my wall gave me +5 to all virginity prolonging rolls and -8 to all Sex With A Real Live Girl rolls.
But it was still worth it.

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Re:citi-bank.com??? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @03:54PM (#10568615)

Probably just one of those stupid IE features that correct typos by even stupid people. Typical IE (L)user... :-D

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Why invest in a newspaper ad.... (Score:4, Funny)

by stephanruby ( 542433 ) writes: on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @01:33AM (#10572903)

Why invest in a newspaper ad when we could reach our audience through cheap popup ads?

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Watch out! (Score:4, Funny)

#186 (Score:3, Funny)

Why not advertize for FREE on Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)

Ad (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Watch out! (Score:2, Funny)

How much? (Score:4, Funny)

uuummm... (Score:2, Funny)

Am I missing something? (Score:5, Funny)

Hang on... (Score:2, Funny)

What they really need... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Watch out! (Score:5, Funny)

Great... pay to be on Bill Gates' enemy list! (Score:5, Funny)

I remember when (Score:3, Funny)

too much reading... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wow nice incenvitve. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Sheesh... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Watch out! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Grassroots Marketing (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Ironically enough... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Ironically enough... (Score:3, Funny)

IT guys read slashdot too (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Public needs to change to make the change... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Why the Times? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Sheesh... (Score:3, Funny)

you must be new around here. (Score:3, Funny)

citi-bank.com??? (Score:3, Funny)

Peer-based forums are the way of the future (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Sheesh... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Watch out! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:citi-bank.com??? (Score:1, Funny)

Why invest in a newspaper ad.... (Score:4, Funny)

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