On 18 Apr 2014, at 13:25, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 18 Apr 2014, at 11:16, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Havent read the article yet, but what was the percentage of Linux downloads >>> in OpenOffice.org? And how does Apache OpenOffice Linux downloads compared >>> to this one? >>> >> >> I have no idea what the download distribution was with OOo. > > I do, up to a point. > > The data we have now do not significantly differ from what we tracked then. > And we noted then, too, that Linux made up a minuscule percentage of our > downloads. We published this. I'm surprised, Alexandro, you ask. You were > around then. > > Linux distributions during OO.o's heyday included OO.o and served it from > their own repos. Now, they honour LO with that. > louis > To amplify. I can't find my own set of data on the matter but it ought no to be very hard to find in an online archive; I mean OS distribution. We started out, in 2001-2004 with a fair amount of Linux (and even a few diehard Solaris). When the Mac OS X OS became avail., in 2004, I think, it used X11 but there was a significant spike in DLs. There was also a lot of press. That seemingly motivated Win. users to download the binaries, and once begun, the momentum grew. Linux diminished in proportion but probably grew in size (we had a LOT of downloads, in total, far more than 100M), but Win (and also Mac OS X, once it was Aquafied) took off. Towards the end, if memory serves me right, we were counting roughly 95% plus Win. (Japan, Italy, Germany, France and en-US were major downloading country codes and language identities, if I recall.) -louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
