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Dear sir/miss,

I was not sure of which mail address to contact, but I hope this one is fine.  I would appreciate if you could redirect this mail to someone with knowledge about the topic if I am way off the correct section of the OpenOffice.org community.

I am at the very starting face on my master's thesis in economics at the University of Oslo, Norway.
The
 topic I am interested in is the role of opensource/free software as 
well as piracy on the market for commercial software (such as Microsoft 
Office in the case of office software), and I am trying to gather some 
information.

I was hoping I could get answers (estimates) on some
 very basic questions about the popularity of OpenOffice (alternatively LibreOffice ):
- How many users are there of OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice?
- How many of those users do also use Microsoft Office?
- How large large is the fraction of OpenOffice/LibreOffice users compared to the total market of office software users?

I
 understand that these statistics may be difficult to obtain due to the 
nature of free software, and that OpenOffice.org may have 
little information about LibreOffice. If you only have estimates/numbers 
on OpenOffice that is perfectly understandable.


Best regards
Arne Rogde Gramstad 		 	   		  -- 
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