Following on from yesterday’s posting, the Bouncer is now working again and you can download OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 from the OpenOffice.org download page. The official release announcement is available here.
There has been comment in various blogs about new security vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org. Some of these posts and the comments on them are completely bizarre. So here’s the real story.
The OpenOffice.org security team were alerted to a couple of potential vulnerabilities in the code. I’ve blogged about this process many times before – there’s no [...]
All together now (with apologies to Charlie and Craig Reid):
But I’d download five million times
And I’d download five million more…
Which is a musical way of proclaiming that as of midnight last night UTC, OpenOffice.org had recorded over five million downloads since the official announcement of the availability of version 3.0:
And no, we’re not havering!
After being offered the chance to plug open-source in the day job last quarter. I was delighted to be asked to ride another hobby-horse this time, with a piece on Green IT, which you can read here on-line. Let’s hope the message isn’t lost in the current chaos in financial services.
As a footnote, I’ve been [...]
One of the side effects of the huge popularity of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is a growth in the number of para-sites – sites which look like official OpenOffice.org sites, but actually have nothing to do with the OpenOffice.org project.
This is how it works. A company builds a plausible looking website which could easily be taken for [...]
From the official announcement on Monday 13th October at 09:00 UTC, to midnight on Sunday 20th October, OpenOffice.org 3.0 recorded an astonishing three million downloads via the Bouncer. That’s:
221,230 GNU/Linux users (who might be considered obvious users of the world’s leading open-source office suite)
an impressive 320,622 Mac OS X users (enjoying OpenOffice.org with a [...]
If 2008 is “The Year of 3″ – the year OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released – then it looks like the first week after launch will be “The Week of 3″ – the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:
What are Bouncer figures? if you download OpenOffice.org from the download page, you will [...]
