After Firefox advocates' called on the public for donations to pay for an advertisement in The New York Times. It seems that the target has been reached (and then some). Starting from Tuesday, the goal was to get 2,500 people to donate $30 or more within 10 days, or before the official release of Firefox 1.0 on Nov. 9.
According to Bart Decrem, spokesman for the Mozilla Foundation, the Spread Firefox organization has already raised more than $100,000--enough for a couple of ads in The New York Times.
We've definitely funded the ad and then some," Decrem said. "It's so impressive--the excitement around this and the numbers. People are coming out of nowhere to join in
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