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Apache Talks Up More Than 333 Million OpenOffice Downloads
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Originally posted by all3f0r1 View PostMore anecdotal, but my father (almost retired cobol dev) hates LibreOffice and stays with OpenOffice, which, according to him "keeps my documents working, unlike LO which is messing everything". There may have been regression that I'm not aware of, I don't know, but given a sufficient amount of such discrepancies in your daily work flow, I can understand why LO would be considered "not production ready". (I'm a LO user BTW, and have not experienced major issues with it, but my documents are pretty basic usually).
While I don't know the exact time frame of that regression, I had the same anecdotal experiences as your father with my documents.
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Interestingly the numbers they published on the Apache.org blog put it at 297 million downloads by Windows users, 31 million downloads by macOS users, and just 4.7 million downloads by Linux users... Well, presumably the Linux users are better educated and going straight for the modern and more maintained LibreOffice.​
Btw, 31 million out of 333 million is 9.31 percent. which also isn't much different compared to MacOS market sharet (around 10-12%).Last edited by user1; 31 August 2022, 09:40 AM.
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Wow... that's a lot of misinformed people, and it's a shame Apache is totally fine knowing this. ~330 million people is like having the entire population of the US use a different standard than everyone else. Imagine that - like what if everyone there used a different set of measurement units lol, what a crazy world that would be.Last edited by schmidtbag; 31 August 2022, 09:16 AM.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostWow... that's a lot of misinformed people, and it's a shame Apache is totally fine knowing this. ~330 million people is like having the entire population of the US use a different standard than everyone else. Imagine that - like what if everyone there used a different set of measurement units lol, what a crazy world that would be.
Sir, you have a call from the ESA.
The fuck is a Metric?
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostSo they're suggesting 333 million people don't know libreoffice exists huh?Last edited by user1; 31 August 2022, 09:35 AM.
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostSo they're suggesting 333 million people don't know libreoffice exists huh?
It makes you wonder how many people discovered it in high school 17 years ago and never felt the need to look for an alternative while continuing to suggest it to all their friends who suggest it to their friends leaving us with a closed loop of OpenOffice users who simply can't be bothered to look for a FOSS alternative. The prevalence of Google Docs shows that they occasionally look for or take suggestions for alternatives, just not in the FOSS realm it seems.
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