What does Mastercard sell ? Pete... Peter J Romano [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:43:08 -0500 > Subject: $21 million per day > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > 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. > > Regards, > > -Rob
