Re: [News] OpenOffice.org Already Downloaded More Than 50,000,000 Times

[RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:50:51 -0500, Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> > 50 million
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> > | Five months (163 days) since release, and OpenOffice.org 3.0 yesterday
> > | clocked up its 50 millionth download via  
> > http://download.openoffice.org.
> > | OK, we know there are many good reasons why OpenOffice.org should be  
> > on
> > | everyone?s desktop, but thi is still an extraordinary achievement.
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> > http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/03/26/50-million/
> >
> > The download pace DOUBLED!
> That's 50 million users who won't be saving in a restricted, proprietary
> *.doc or *.docx format.
>
> 50 Million users documents that will forever be readable.
>
> 50 million $700 payments *not* going to Microsoft.
>
> 35 BILLION DOLLARS!!!
>
> $35,000,000,000 ....
>
> That's a big hit in the bribery and graft, anti Linux corruption fund
> department.
And the FUDdite will tell you, presumably with a straight face, that  
Microsoft isn't worried about OpenOffice.
My response to them. Bullshit, they aren't.

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RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"