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Is anyone counting the downloads at OpenOffice?
(The answer is yes, see below)
Wow, we crashed the servers at OpenOffice. Well that may not be a good thing, but it shows just how popular the alternative to that other office suite is. I hope that someone at OpenOffice.org can find a way to count how many downloads of the Linux versions are made. That would give us a very good estimate as to the number of Linux users there are. I did my part, I have the deb.tar.gz on my desktop now.
This could get very interesting. Keep in mind that some of those downloads could be by a company, a school board, a local government where the one download could be distributed to 10, 100, or 1,000 computers. Yes, I do hope that a log is being kept of the downloads. And lets not forget about the Windows versions that are downloaded since they represent potential defectors to Linux.
Update someone is counting: http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/15/first-million/
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