# European campaign for Firefox advert raises €48,000

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/10/european-campaign-firefox-advert-raises-e48000/
- Published: 2004-12-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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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![Firefox Rediscover the Web logo on a sandy background](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2004/12/firefox-rediscover-the-web.png)

Image: Firefox

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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