"The Firefox Crew" is referring to the team that have recently released version 1.0 of Firefox [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/], an Internet browser based on Mozilla [http://www.mozilla.org].
They recently rallied to fundraise money to fund a full page advertisement in the New York Times. Apparently they received around $200,000 USD in total, the left over goes to future software development efforts. [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/4891%E2%80%9D] Now, our Linux Audio audience is a lot narrower than what a web browser would appeal to, but maybe it's a start, and with some smarts, we may surprise ourselves. Dan On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:23 +0100, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On tor, 2004-11-25 at 11:53 +1100, Dan Harper wrote: > > Maybe we should start a sooper dooper fundraising scheme like what the > > firefox crew did ;) > > Well, my 20¤ is here, but who would you like me to send them to?. > Preferrably to someone not going to Goa next week. > > On the other hand, I am not at all familiar with "The Firefox Crew" nor > what they have done. Can you elaborate on that? > > > > We are still talking a ton of dough, and an individual fronting the > > > consequences of everybody else banging out, is risking a substantial sum > > > of money. > > /j > > > > -- Dan Harper http://danharper.org --- Enhancing the Linux desktop for desktop users --- --- http://danharper.org/linuxdesktopblog/ ---