People who can't afford Micrsoft prices, or don't want to give that much money to (or trust) a shady United States company. Someone else above mentioned the Korean car industry, and this ties in with what I've been saying about Asia: this is where the 'revolution' will occur. That said, it's good to see people trying, though it would also be nice to see them work to improve existing implementations (this is all mentioned above by other people). OpenOffice does everything I need, apparently better than this, and it's free (in both ways). The ironic bit is that I agree with you this doesn't look to be worth the price.

I don't want to run emulated software I want a Linux office program that does what I need. I don't steal commercial software, and I don't want to buy Microsoft Office.not even from UMBC for $20. I guess I still have a valid license for Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works.

I didn't buy my computer, unless you count the fact that the floppy drive came with the 486 SX-22 that my parents bought years and years ago. I am not 'almost any Windows user' in fact, I'm not a Windows user at all, except for a few rare instances where I have to use one of the university machines to get around truly horrible Windows-isms in some important (for 2 seconds) Web sites. To mangle a metaphor, what does this have to do with the price of dried plums in Korea? '.almost any Windows user.a Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq.90% chance.' There are a lot of people that live and die by the hand of MSOffice and do all kinds of unexpected overly complicated documents and spreadsheets with these tools probably to impress their bosses with their 'puter skills. God, I hate windows but simplistic solutions only work for the simple. doc format or even worse I go over to my NT compile box and open it there. When the docs have tables, images and funky formatting that even Abiword sees as odd symbols then you are shot and have to use OpenOffice and save in a. Why? Because the rtf format can't handle the formatting and embedded images and other noise they send in these documents. However, when the project manager sends complex doc based templates expecting you to edit these for the task and then send them back you are stuck. This is fine and I have done this same move for simple docs.

Hancom office s viewer installed itself