Rob Weir wrote:
I'd like to double check my logic here.
What fraction of our downloads would you expect Linux to be?
The article is too inconsequential to be worth commenting on. But I'll
jump in this "what fraction should Linux be" thing.
It could be higher. But this wouldn't necessarily be good (or bad) news.
Explanation: imagine that OpenOffice is the only suite available for,
say, an operating system named Y. Then every Y user would download
OpenOffice. Even if Y only has 10% market share, the fact that ALL users
of Y download OpenOffice would mean that it accounts for many more
downloads than 10%, say 20% of our downloads. The reason is that Windows
users, for example, may choose among many office suites: not ALL of them
will download OpenOffice, while ALL the Y users will; and this would
skew the numbers.
Then, in real life, these concepts lose any meaning, since the available
office suites differ by platform, one can install more than one suite
(or none), bundles affect the motivation to download a suite... For
sure, when every desktop PC user in the world uses OpenOffice, then the
percentage of Linux downloads will match the percentage of desktops
running Linux. But until then, it can be, like in our case, 30% higher
than the percentage of desktops running Linux and this simply means
nothing (well, if NOBODY used OpenOffice on Windows we would see 0%
downloads from Windows, 70-80% from Mac and 20%-30% from Linux... but we
would be far less successful!).
Regards,
Andrea.
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