Can A Quality Office Productivity Suite Really Be FREE?

Competing head-on with Microsoft’s Office suite, OpenOffice.org offers a full, professional, suite of office productivity programs that rivals what the software giant charges $hundreds for and they offer it for free. That’s right. FREE!

How can they do this? There must be a catch, right? Nope. It’s a thing called Open Source that makes it all work. Open Source is about serious people who get together to create great stuff and make it available for others without charge. And there’s a lot of this going around lately. Chat boards, discussion forums, word processors, games, movie viewers, music players, file transfer (FTP) programs, web browsers, whole operating systems that rival Windoze, even the software that makes this website run, are all professional-grade software packages available for free. They are not sold. They have no price. They are free to the taker.

On their website, at http://OpenOffice.org they say they are “the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.”

Government offices, education systems, business professionals, non-profit organizations, information technology (IT) businesses, and free software developers all use this product. It is professional, powerful, safe, and FREE. You no longer need to pay $hundreds or risk using pirated software (you wouldn’t do that, right?) which may have viruses, trojans, or “back doors” added to it.

You can get legitimate, quality, software free of charge!