Sunday, October 24, 2004

Firefox and the NYT campaign

Ok.. I found this while browsing online, other ppl might too...

Its the first time that anyone in the open source world has tried anything like this.. Basically, Firefox/mozilla is running an ad in the new york times in the middle liftout soon, and it will be the first time in history, when anyone in the open source community has ever tried to do such a thing. It is also the first chance we have ever had to blow IE off the face of the planet in a very rapid move, and it will always be remembered. In 5 years, people will still be referring back to this.

Its very cheap to do ($10 for students), and businesses will never have a better chance to boost their moral then this one..

They have already surpassed the minimum pledge for donations they were needing to pay for it, which means that it will definately happen (in fact, since 7000 people have signed up in 3 days, it will probably get to the point that it will be spread out over the week).

Believe me, even if your not in US, i think it would be great to do (might be nice if astalavista joined up too), because it may potentially be that your name could end up on many sites, etc too.

Firefox is the first chance in history we have to be able to run all of our applications entirely off a web browser, and there is no doubt in my mind that after this campaign, along with the release of there will be a massive increase in firefox users and IE will be dumped in the dirt finally.

You can get more information and sign up here:
https://www.mozillastore.com/donations/?campaign=newspaper&user=6406
(you can use paypal, cheque, or CC)

And no, I dont get any money from it or anything.. I just really think its one of those awesome opportunities. that especially since it has had 7000 ppl sign up within 3 days (3X more then expected overall), it will always be memorable. Mozilla is not for profit, so no company will benefit from the donations, only the open source community will as a whole..

and yes.. I am excited about it.. It means I will no longer have to put up with pages which detect the IE user agent and try to tell me that firefox cant use it.. It will also finally put the last stake in activex and put it into extinction, as well as allow SVG (the nice scalable graphics MAC OS X uses) to finally be used predominantly finally, without IE holding it back..

Auzy

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Btw, Driver on demand is being paused until after exams, which will last the next 2 weeks. I am looking for coders to start coding version 2 with me..

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