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____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 14 June 2008 20:30 : \____
> 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.
There will be a lot more publicity when the fines come and the findings of the
vast investigation told.
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