On 6 February 2013 17:33, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:45 AM, RA Stehmann > <anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> wrote: > > Am 06.02.2013 14:43, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> Yes, yes, we're a non-profit organization. We don't charge for Apache > >> OpenOffice. We don't pay developers. But we still do produce > >> something of value, and that value can be estimated. > >> > >> People need office productivity software. The main alternative to > >> OpenOffice is Microsoft Office, perhaps the "Home and Student" > >> edition. The latest version (2013) sells for $139.99 on Amazon. This > >> is for the downloadable version. > >> > >> We have averaged 153K downloads per day of Apace OpenOffice over the > >> last week. That is an average value to the public of $21.5 million > >> per day. Or $7.833 billion (7.833 thousand million) per year. > >> > >> To put that in perspective, here are comparable annual sales figures > >> for some familiar companies: > >> > >> -- Campbell Soup Company: $7.882 billion > >> -- Royal Caribbean Cruises: $7.657 billion > >> -- Mastercard, Inc: $7.391 billion > >> -- OfficeMax: $7.094 billion > >> > >> > >> So we're providing tremendous value to the public. We should be proud > >> of what we've accomplished over the past decade. > >> > >> Note: We could certainly debate the exact value provided to users. > >> Determining what a user would do if they did not get AOO for free is > >> tricky. But the logic above is similar to how the BSA estimates > >> losses to Microsoft from software piracy. They assume that the person > >> who pirates Office would buy it if they did not pirate it. So it > >> seems fair to use that same logic to estimate the value provided to > >> users by a legal free alternative like Apache OpenOffice. > >> > > > > Freedom is far to expensive. > > > > (I think you have to multiply the download figures, because people have > > the really used right to share AOO and they have the right to install it > > on any number of computers.) > > > > Of course, Microsoft also has multi-user and multi-PC licenses as > well, which sell at a discount to the price of a single-user license. > So it is not strictly a multiplication. But it does make our value a > little greater. We also have Base and Draw, so we have additional > applications than just Home and Business has, but we're not quite > Office Professional since we don't have Publisher. > > But I think the numbers are a good rough estimate. > > -Rob > @Rob.
Nice work as usual, digging out these numbers. I think however (along the lines of Dave) that this is realy something the press could use for a good story, and it would be so much better to tell it to the world, instead of just us in here (we already know we provide a great service). I can already see the title "how non-profit organisations help goverments and companies save billions to counter the crisis". Any reporter would like that :-) rgds Jan I > > > Regards > > Michael > > > > > > >
