50 Million downloads and still counting

These days are occasions to celebrate, both for the ODF and OpenOffice.org communities. Yesterday was the Document Freedom Day, celebrating the liberation of documents through open standards such as ODF. This global initative attempts to let people know about the importance of true Open Standards and why they matter in their every day life. Also the Document Freedom Day was the occasion for the Sun OpenOffice.org team to get involved with this initiative. I wasn’t there but I think they liked it. In other ODF news Rob Weir now has the most famous aggregator on ODF. And he might be right: The ODF planet is really an in-depth feedreader for ODF news.

But the news do not stop here. OpenOffice.org has reached beyond 50 million downloads and we are still counting. The community continues to grow. Recently, we signed up the Pashto Native-Language and hope it will help people in Afghanistan break the digital divide in this war-riddled country. In fact these news almost got hidden by the quite impressive list of new features expected in the upcoming 3.1. (yes, antialiasing is coming in the 3.1. Promised.)

Enjoy the beginning of the Spring!