It takes 1 click to download Firefox from GetFirefox, a website with big words and very little text, but it takes 4 or more clicks to get OpenOffice from OOo’s website after being presented with a barrage of information and donation requests.
This is definitely an indication of how to make open source software succeed en masse: Make it brain dead simple to acquire and use for the average user.
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