On 02/06/2013 05:49 AM, Dave Fisher wrote:
Hi Rob,
This is great information. It makes me very proud to be a part of
Apache OpenOffice.
yes, indeed! An incredible insight!
This is something that should be part of our next board report. It is
probably worth discussing if this is press release material with
Sally at press@
Thanks and Regards, Dave
On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
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
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
MzK
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world
for want of a little courage."
-- Sydney Smith
