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.
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?
Best regards,
Finn G. Larsen
Personally, I like the idea. I think there is a site called
GoOpenSource or something like that that is about promoting libre
software. I hope to get funding for The Freely Project to do similar
activities. One of the biggest reasons I think libre software is still
not a household name is that we don't charge the fees that pay for
marketing. How do you solve that? I guess the Mozilla project found a
way. They might even be willing to contribute a dollar or two. Who knows?
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