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European campaign for Firefox advert raises €48,000

Howard Lake | 10 December 2004 | News

Firefox original logo 2004-2005. Mozilla Corporation, MPL 2 via Wikimedia Commons
Image: Mozilla Corporation, MPL 2 , via Wikimedia Commons

An online campaign to raise funds for a newspaper advert promoting the open source Firefox Web browser in Europe has raised over €48,000.

The income was used to publish a full-page advert in the business section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany on 2 December 2004. The advert was the first publicly-funded advert for open source software in Europe.

The online campaign secured donations from 2,403 people, and exceeded its target by €10,000. This surplus was donated to Mozilla Europe, the European affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation.

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The European appeal follows a US campaign in October 2004 which raised over $250,000 online in 10 days to pay for an advert in the New York Times.

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