Jeremy Amer wrote:
Daniel - I think you've misunderstood the point ......
Of those people who use OOo, 75-80% of them are WIndows users.
This is not the same as 75-80% of Windows users have OOo !!
No, I understood perfectly, but those numbers seem suspect.
If Windows has 85% of the desktop market, and 80% of OOo users are on
Windows that would mean that OOo has a similar proportion of each
market, which is simply not true.
Suppose that:
* OOo has 6% of the Windows market.
* OOo has 80% of the Linux market.
* Windows has 85% of the desktop market.
* Linux has 8% of the desktop market.
That would mean that 5.1% of the people use OOo on Windows and 6.4% of
the market uses OOo on Linux. In other words, OOo would have 11.5% of
the total desktop market, and 44% of OOo users would be on Windows and
66% of our users would be on Linux.
Now, please don't nit-pick on these exact numbers. They are an example.
The point I'm trying to make is that supposing that 80% of our users are
on Windows is very unreasonable because only a very small portion of
Windows users use OOo whereas a large portion of Linux users use OOo.
Andre's suggestion that 80% of our users are on Windows would suggest
that OOo has a roughly equal presence in both OS's which is obviously
not true.
Now
Reading the OOo Calc forum (I am an active memeber), most of the
issues raised do indeed relate to Windows installations of OOo.
That is an empirical observation that can be affected by many things.
For example, few Linux users install OOo because OOo comes pre-installed
with Linux. Also, Linux users might be more savvy in general, or they
might prefer to get help from their LUGs, or their distro-specific
support lists.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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