web at work wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisi Reisz" > To: > > 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. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > is there like a counter on the number of downloads from OOo's homepage? i know they could get it from elsewhere, but that's a start.
_________________________________________________________________
