Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year

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."

unique vs total?

[trybywrench]

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.

Of course OO has a higher number of D/Ls...

[Bill_the_Engineer]

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

Re:Good Job

[Microlith]

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.