Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> Huge Success for the ODF Community
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>>>| OpenOffice.org, which is just one implementation of ODF, is currently being
>>>| downloaded more than 1.2M times per week and being distributed by popular
>>>| hardware products like the Asus Eee PC. Government organizations around the
>>>| world are adopting OpenOffice.org and/or ODF and have started to help each
>>>| other with their adoption challenges. Thus, ODF has become a "market force"
>>>| that can't be ignored anymore. Thus, again, congratulations and thank you
>>>| to all the people who have contributed to the success of OpenOffice.org and
>>>| ODF so far! Well done!
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>>> http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf
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>>> It used to be 1 million download per week a few months ago.
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>> I suspect that Microsoft's attempts to corrupt ISO, the BSI and so on
>> have done more to create publicity that any amount of ODF pushing by
>> interested parties might have done. News organs are rarely all that
>> interested in good news, but a bit of corruption, seediness, bad
>> behaviour, inappropriate conduct, a few things going wrong, perhaps an
>> EU investigation and a few court cases, and you can guarantee coverage
>> in pretty much every publication going.
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> There will be a lot more publicity when the fines come and the findings of the
> vast investigation told.
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I'm sure that there's a lot of work presently going on regarding
minimising the impact of the investigation. Never underestimate the
power of cash :-)
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