On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> wrote: > Le 27/11/2013 20:23, Rob Weir a écrit : > >> Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. > > > Well, I also saw this: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=62425 (South > Tyrol government to standardise on LibreOffice) and especially the quote > from last post: "We opted for LibreOffice over OpenOffice because we think > this gives us more guarantees. It has a more consistent and constantly > growing community of developers and by statute has to be independent from > corporations," Pfeifer said. >
7000 desktops? Really? We get more than that many downloads every *hour*, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (on average). Just because our users are anonymous does not make them any less relevant. > LibO is getting more and more momentum (French referential uses LibO too, > something that will be implemented in more and more institutions). I wonder > why AOO doesn't report similar successes. > South Tyrol has been migration to OpenOffice for nearly a decade now. I remember seeing them give a presentation on this at the Orvietto OpenOffice.org conference, for example. Hopefully one of these years they will complete this task. But this is hardly news. > Are we lacking marketing power? Or key people? > It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Any one migrating to a free office suite as part of a migration to Linux will either take LibreOffice or Calligra. If we want to give them the easy choice of AOO as well then we need to get AOO packages for the distros. Personally I don't think the Linux desktop is worth the effort. That is my personal view, and I don't force it on anyone else, but that's my honest opinion. Regards, -Rob > Hagar > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
