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Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year

Posted by Unknown on from the name-recognition dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this quick bite from the H: "Just a few days after the one year anniversary of the release of the first version of OpenOffice from the Apache Foundation (Apache OpenOffice 3.4) on 8 May 2012, the project can now boast 50 million downloads of the Open Source office suite. 10 million of those downloads happened since the beginning of March. In contrast, LibreOffice claimed it had 15 million unique downloads of its office suite in all of 2012."

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  1. unique vs total? by trybywrench · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're going to make the comparison between the two download counts they need to be the same as in unique vs unique or total vs total but not total vs unique.

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  2. Of course OO has a higher number of D/Ls... by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 4, Informative

    LibreOffice comes pre-packed in most Linux distributions. If you want OpenOffice you have to download it from Apache.

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  3. Re:Good Job by Microlith · · Score: 3, Informative

    I doubt they will be able to get them to go from the MPL3 to the Apache license. The transition from LGPL -> MPL3 maintained the copyleft nature of the license, going to Apache would eliminate it. I suspect it would be significantly more difficult to get people to agree to that.