You can find an essay on this site about the effect that firefox has on the open source community. And one of the interesting points that is mentioned in that, is the 2 page advertisment in the new york times last year. To my surprise I found a similar advertisement in the Dutch Spits today (3 page from the back). I wasn’t aware such an endevour was taking place, so I was happily surprised to see such a thing.

As a happy Firefox user I couldn’t resist actually writing a personal note on the ad and leave the paper wide open on a trainchair. “Everything this ad says is true, firefox rules, and it’s free, go try it out”.

I can’t remember when I felt more like a geek than today. And for good order:
Pdf from http://www.persberichten.com/firefox/ who are the guys who did this.

edit: I forgot to add the link to the firefox site, and the nifty banner:

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