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

On 04/16/2011 12:06 PM, drew wrote:
> 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
Missed that announcement.  Well, next will be their dumping that product 
line completely.  Maybe Oracle realized that missed the boat when the 
hesitated on whether or not they would continue with the OOo products.  
Now that LibreOffice is doing a better job of making an open-source 
office suite, they decided that it is a lost market.

The issue is what they will do with the "OpenOffice.org" name.  I doubt 
that would want TDF to get the rights to it.  I doubt that would give it 
away.  I just hope they do not put it up for "sale to the highest 
bidder".  Then MS might try to get it and then do some nasty thing.  MSO 
would "try" to relicense OOo so groups could not use the code base of 
OOo without paying "bribe" monies to M$.  They tried that with other 
packages they bought.  Buy the software and then sue companies who had 
an agreement with the original company to use its software codes.  MS 
now owns the code and MS takes anyone to court who uses it, even if they 
had legal right to do that from the original company.  SO, I do hope MS 
do not get their hands on any part of OOo and its coding.






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