Apache OpenOffice developers have calculated how much money they save to humanity by distributing free office applications. Daily OpenOffice download an average of 138 928 times. If you use the method of the enemy and take the price of a paid MS Office (on average, $ 150 for the Home and Student version), you’ll get $ 21 million in savings per day. Or $ 7.6 billion per year.

Of course, this calculation is very conditional. Not all OpenOffice users would buy MS Office for $ 150. Although many would buy - so for them the free alternative is indeed a saving. The calculation does not take into account the popular LibreOffice, which also saves the society several billion dollars a year.

Office applications are needed today by everyone: schoolchild, student, teacher, doctor, lawyer, civil servant, businessman in any industry. Twenty years ago, mainly businessmen used such programs. From them it was quite logical to take $ 595 for a copy of MS Excel (this program alone cost so much in 1992). Now the situation has changed. Applications OpenOffice download users from 236 countries and territories. The diagram above shows the density of downloads per 1000 Internet users in each country.
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Statistics for some countries

Total downloads
Russia: 1 210 979
Ukraine: 224,151
Belarus: 19,910

Downloads for 1000 Internet users
Russia: 17.34
Ukraine: 49.04
Belarus: 5.2

Downloads per 1000 inhabitants
Russia: 8.45
Ukraine: 16.23
Belarus: 2.1