I've seen some online traffic, on Twitter and elsewhere, questioning the claim in our graduation press release that AOO has been downloaded by users in "228 countries". The critics of this claim say that there are not that many countries in the world.
Well, it depends on how you define things. There are UN countries. There are Olympic countries. There are postal countries. There are countries with telephone country codes. And so on. These don't all correspond with each other. (Look at the complexities with the status of Taiwan or Macedonia, for example). The definition used when looking at internet traffic is (not surprisingly) "internet countries", e.g., countries with an assigned ccTLD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains). In this scheme, for example, Martinique (.mq) and France (.fr) are two different countries, although politically Martinique is an overseas region, or région d'outre-mer, of France. You can see the complete list of internet countries from which AOO has been downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?dates=2012-06-01+to+2012-10-19 As you can see, the number is now 232, indicating that the press release understated the number. Anyone who is interested can take this publicly available data and map it to whatever other country-counting convention they wish, whether based on UN membership, US diplomatic recognition, Universal Postal Union, or whatever. Regards, -Rob
