OpenOffice 3.x: 100 Million Downloads
The OpenOffice project has celebrated the 100,000,000 download of its free office suite since the release of version 3.0.
As reported by the project, this statistic only includes downloads from their official website. Users who obtained the software from the repository, a Linux distro or a CD from a magazine are not included in the count.
The announcement of the proud download number comes just before the international OpenOffice community meet for their yearly conference in Orvieto in Italy. (November 4. to 6.), where, according to an OpenOffice press release, the champagne is already being chilled.
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