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From: "Lisi Reisz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 22:25:18 web at work wrote:
IS there any place that tracks the
totals and the market shares?
I don't see how anyone _can_.
I download each OOo version once and give it to all my clients (and install
it
for many of them). I install Linux on my clients' computers when I and
they
deem it possible; every time I do so, I install a Distro that includes OOo
and put an OOo icon on the panel for them. I always suggest that it would
be
nice if they were to register, since that seems a small price to pay for
such
a marvellous program. I have no idea whether any of them does so. I am
but
one of many. There are no accurate, or even vaguely accurate, records.
Legitimate copies of M$ programs are bought and paid for, so there are
records.
There can be no realistic comparison between them.
Lisi
There must be ways to get some figures that are reflective to what I would
like.
If a program like FireFox can be downloaded free and then tracked for market
share, then OOo should be able to do something like that.
There can be notation about the "download once - shared to many" theory.
I do it myself.
Can we use the download figures, plus the number of PC's that are converted
to
OOo, plus other figures, to total a good "quest" on the number that are
doing a
"free instead of buy" purchase.
Listing of who converts and how many downloads could be useful.
These are some titles from some of the newsletters:
Acer computers will preinstall OOo
OpenOffice.org being distributed to Portuguese schools
Polish retailer selling laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org
Millions of copies of OpenOffice.org distributed by Asustek
Sharjah school adopts OpenOffice.org
MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org
More Open Source at the European Commission
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
Laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed becoming popular
26,000 Linux boxes in education in the Philippines
About OpenOffice.org usage in India
Dutch "government ISV" adds ODF support
Government offers computer software for 2 Euro
Users demand support for OpenOffice.org
VeryPC pre-installs OpenOffice.org
Open Source and Open Standards for Schools in Brussels
Austrian Ministry of Education licenses video training for
OpenOffice.org/StarOffice
These facts and usage information could be useful to people
to see what OOo has done.
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