[us-marketing] Re: Download stats (was LibreOffice North American Community meeting - April 2011 )

Le 2011-04-16 12:06, drew a écrit :
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 17:46 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> > On 04/16/2011 04:17 PM, drew wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry double post - but if I'm not mistaken there where some stats
> > > released recently - I think it was 1.5 million total downloads, I'd
> > > forgotten about that in the last email.
> >
> > Yes, the figure is very low,
>
> Really - I don't consider that low.
>
> Linux was the base, IMO, and that was won straight away. That group is
> not going to give us a huge number of downloads as they tend to get it
> via the distro's.
>
> > especially in Europe (exactly the opposite
> > from OOo). I suppose that the trend will change after the announcement
> > from Oracle. but the switch will be slow.
>
> Oh, did Oracle say something interesting recently?
>
> *chuckle*...oh you mean that little press release about it dropping
> commercial support for OO.o and moving it to a community based project.
>
> Interesting stuff for sure.
>
> Best,
>
> Drew

IMO I would not be surprised if there was something else behind all of 
this. It is not often you see a company abandon a piece of software with 
an estimated 100 million users.

On the other hand we should follow Oracle's official pronouncement on 
moving OpenOffice to a community based project with a press release or 
our own, detailing our LibreOffice community based project, how we got 
to this point and how we hope that Oracle opt to redirect all future 
endeavours to the LibreOffice project. We should also see if Oracle 
would not mind passing on the OpenOffice trademark to the TDF where it 
rightfully belongs. TDF should be prepared to constantly offer to 
negotiate the return of the OpenOffice trademark back to where it belongs.

This would make it obvious to anyone that the TDF still considers the 
OpenOffice trademark part of our open source community and that it 
should not be put out on the auction block.

Cheers

Marc


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