Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Dubious claims

Thanks Tom for saying that.

I just started the upload process for the 3.6.3 NA-DVD .iso file.

Been sick since the day after 3.6.3 came out and was too "light-headed" 
to do any "real work".

As far as I can tell, it will be uploaded to the interim server in about 
10+/- hours.  It is now 9:13 local and 14:13 London time.  So for Erich 
to do his "magic" it will be after midnight before it is completely 
uploaded, so it will be too late.  So it might be available to all by 
Monday or so, hopefully.  As Erich states, it is not easy to get the iso 
files pushed to all of the mirrors, etc..

I would love to see a listing of how many downloads the iso files [mine 
and LibreOfficeBox] get.  My first NA-DVD was for the 3.3.3 version, but 
it was not too many months ago that they got onto the LO download 
system.  Thanks to all for that.

As for the DVD, I do not have any non-LO-included fonts anymore.  I 
needed the space a few version ago.  It is currently nearly full, 
according to the K3b "free space" listings for the DVD creation.  But, I 
do add things like FireFox, Thunderbird, Artha, and other packages and 
such to the "Extras" section of the DVD.  I like the Web-Of-Trust link 
[no file available for security] that will install a "filter" to your 
browser [FF or IE] that rates the Google links for trustworthiness and 
possible nasties.  Been using it for years and it does help a lot.


On 11/08/2012 06:24 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I have always thought LO seriously underestimates it's number of users.  I grumbled about it years 
> ago.  On the other hand (as people pointed out to me at the time) at least TDF only counts numbers 
> that we can be reasonably confident of.
>
>
> Tim downloads the latest release and builds up a Dvd with a couple of other OpenSource programs that 
> people might want in an office, some dictionaries, some fonts and bits&bobs and then gives away the 
> Dvds at local events and to people and organisations locally.  He then supplies User Support 
> occasionally asking the lists here if they ask something weird.  As they get more knowledgeable about 
> LO they can help each other.  The entire infrastructure he has been building up counts as 1 user.  Rob 
> Weir would spin that into being a dubious figure and say it's just 1 user being wrongly re-counted for 
> each release.
>
> My boss uses LO nowadays when i send him a document but when he starts to write  document he uses 
> MSO, similarly for the manager and my colleagues.  When they have a bunch of images such as logos 
> that don't line-up or space out well enough or any of the many and varied problems that MSO creates 
> they get me to fix it (if there is time) with LO.  Obviously they don't get counted as users either 
> despite the fact that they do rely on LO.
>
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)


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