Loading ...I don’t know what’s up with this - Firefox Office. I found the link in an add at the top of Yahoo when I searched for gmail drive. These guys want to sell me OpenOffice, Firefox, and G-Drive for $29.95. Although I am a little unclear as to the exact nature of G-Drive, I do know that OpenOffice and Firefox are available for download free. That leaves us with G-Drive - for $29.95. I also have it on good authority that you can download Gmail Drive (Windows) or GMailFS (Linux) for free. Of course, they do promise a “new approach to office productivity” and they will include all this great (free) software on a CD and ship it to your home or office. Do they provide a GMail invite? Possibly… but you can always get one for free from the GMail Invite Spooler.
In the same spirit I am running a special this year!
AimlessOffice - You can take your office productivity to new highs!
Due to the amazing price of AimlessOffice I can’t send you a CD and I can’t provide support but you can download these products for free from the original source vendors. You can also get support from the original authors of the software so all you are really missing is a CD. Of course, you can always crank up Nero and burn a CD!
OpenOffice
Firefox
Gmail Drive (Windows)
GMailFS (Linux)
Free GMail Invite - act fast only 300,000 invites left!
and if you act now I will throw in an awesome mail program for free - Thunderbird!
* I’m all for capitalism. I simply question the value of this offer. It seems to me that nothing of added value is available beyond a CD with 3 free pieces of software and a free GMail invite (maybe.)
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March 12th, 2005 @1:37 pm
I have taken down the firefox office website. Perhaps you will take this down now.
FYI, I had the GDrive built, which I think has some advantages over the GMail Drive, such as the ability to lable the file and view folders by labels.
I believe we added value by combining products (both free and internally developed) and marketing as a package. Consider the time that would be necessary to find and combine all the applications we put together, as well as the cost of CD’s for OpenOffice ($13.95 - Flexity Software) and Firefox ($6.95 plus shipping). Or how about oooff.com where the price is $29.95, without a GDrive equivalent or Firefox integration (application launch buttons). Further, many user’s don’t have a high speed connection for large downloads.
I know most of my costs were marketing - obviously anyone who bought Firefox Office might well have bought MS Office. Note also I made donations to FF from sales.
However, I have to take responsibility for not making it clear that users could get FF and OO free via download.
I?m now building a Firefox extension/OpenOffice add-on that will allow the user the save files to the GDrive while working, a kind of virtual drive. When I bring FFO back on line, it will inlcude links for OpenOffice and Firefox downloads, and make it clear that I?m selling just the products I have developed and that Firefox and OpenOffice are free.
My apologies to the OS community.