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| title: Over 200 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice |
| date: '2016-11-28T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: OOo |
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Recently the new record
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| mark of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html" target="_blank" title="More than 200 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice">200 million downloads</a> was reached. The
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| downloads are managed by our partner <a href="https://www.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" title="SourceForge">SourceForge</a> .</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The high demand of the
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| most current release 4.1.3 - that was released in October - is an
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| acknowledgment of the previous work and a great motivation for the
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| future.</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The ongoing trust of our
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| users is also a thankful expression to all people who put their personal
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| spare time and effort into the project and software.</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But of course there are
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| more ways to distribute Apache OpenOffice. The most common one is to
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| download the binary packages from one of the many mirror servers. But
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| also printed magazines with an included DVD are possible, you can get
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| it from your neighbors, friends, coworkers, it's part of free
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| software collections, and many more ways we can think of.</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">You don't need a
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| permission or even registration to use or copy Apache OpenOffice as
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| it is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" target="_blank" title="Free and Open Source Software">free and open source software</a>.
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| However, this makes it also difficult to get meaningful numbers of
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| actual users. It's not measurable if a download stands for a single
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| user or an installation in a larger network.</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Furthermore it's not known
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| if Apache OpenOffice was downloaded the first time or it's an update
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| for a previous installed version. Much more interesting to know is
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| that the statistics show a steady download of 100,000 every day.</p>
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| <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It's safe to say that
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| Apache OpenOffice has one of the highest user base in the world of
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| free software projects. And for this we want to say <b>Thank You!</b></p> |
