Re: [libreoffice-users] How did AOO figure it was worth $21 Million dollars a day or $7 billion per year?

On 02/19/2013 01:06 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> On 19/02/2013 at 18:15, "webmaster-Kracked_P_P" <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How did AOO figure out how much their version of OOo was worth per day
> > to users?
> They used assumption that downloaded and bought copy are totally
> interchangeable, which means that if not downloaded, every AOO copy would be
> bought for some arbitrary amount of money.
>
> This is the same assumption that lead RIAA to sue LimeWire for causing $75
> trillion of damage to music industry. $75 trillion happens to be more money
> than there is in entire world.
>
> Basically: their methodology is clearly flawed. I am pretty sure that even the
> Apache guys don't believe in that marketing bullshit.
The number appears to be totally idiotic because you do not know if the 
download was done for evaluation, upgrade, or to replace something else. 
Because AOO and LO are free many will download a copy for evaluation but 
they would never do this if they had to spend money. Personally I tend 
to upgrade LO shortly after the new release is available partly because 
it is free; my upgrade costs are only a few minutes of my time. 
Proprietary software has the problem that many users will skip releases 
again because they must spend money.

Also, each download does not mean a single install it is only a 
download. It might never get installed or it might be installed on 
multiple machines. My guess the number of downloads which replace 
another package is considerably less than the total.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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