The LibreOffice numbers, on the other hand, we only know from download claims in press releases, and then only at long intervals.

It is all there, day-to-day, including breakdown by country and operating system. The downloads are counted by a respected 3rd party and the entire processing of these numbers is open for inspection. So everything is open and transparent here. We gather these stats with a Python script (also public here) and that data is saved to a data file, which is then plotted on our website. The download stats are public and exposed by SourceForge via their REST API. I’ll lay out the numbers as I know them and let you be the judge.įirst, what do we have on the Apache OpenOffice side? Most of our downloads are from our download site hosted by SourceForge. But to the extent that some people seem take these claims as facts, and are repeating, them, then I hope I will be forgiven for giving truth a chance to be heard. If this were merely yet another case of puffery from the LibreOffice marketing department then I might just let it go, as I have with many other similar claims in the past couple of years. I think you’ll agree by the time you are done reading my analysis. Their claims fall apart if given any scrutiny and placed against comparable numbers from Apache OpenOffice. (These two different statistics are unfortunately conflated in their publicity campaigns, but more about that later). I’ve recently read some implausible claims from the LibreOffice project, concerning their stats for downloads and users.

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