On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:06:01 -0500 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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 > > > > > > It would be best if the silent mapping of OpenOffice to LibreOffice on many linux distros could be stopped. Use a common linux distro, try to install OpenOffice using the package manager, and what does one get - LibreOffice. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
