Hello Finn, it's good to see you here! More comments inline. Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote:
> Hi, > > As a Danish marketing contact, I was last week contacted by an IT > company who suggested that we should collect money for an OOo 2.0 > advertisement in a newspaper - same style as what the Mozilla people > did when Forefox 1.0 was launched. The company itself would be willing > to pay a certain amount of money. Good idea. > > I think it's a great idea. Of course there's always a risk that we > cannot collect money enough, but given the fact that there's a lot of > companies an organisations out there who sees Microsofts total > dominance in the office suite market as a problem, I think there > should be a chance that this could actually work. > > I would like to know what people on this list thinks about this > suggestion. Maybe we could make a collective initiative with more or > less the same ad in newspapers all over the world? Maybe even on the > same day? Sorry to be rather down-to-earth, but it may not work out very well at this time. However, what can be done on a Danish level is to collect local funds through an existing or newly-founded local org and advertise OOo as you pointed out. Hope this helps, Charles-H. Schulz. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
