It happens all the time, because someone has a document standard that isn’t open and able to be modified, that we can’t see each other’s stuff. “I can honestly say that within the last two days someone sent me an email where one was Office 20 and we have issues seeing each other’s documents.
“We provide a service that’s both welcome to someone who can’t financially support Microsoft or, from a freedom perspective, anyone who wants to avoid the monopoly or document lock-in of Microsoft Office,” Olson says. But at 50 percent of the market share, its popularity is waning to such open-source alternatives as the word-processing programs of Google Docs (16 percent) and Open Office (16 percent). In a poll conducted by of about nearly 1,700 computer users, Microsoft’s Word still ranks as the most-used word-processing program. Indeed, KDE’s KOffice suite joins scores of other open-source MS Office alternatives. “We’re following the model set out decades ago by Linux and BSD operating systems, which were built freely to be options or alternatives to UNIX.”
OPEN SOURCE WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE FOR MAC FREE
“This recent development is to make sure that all of our applications are cross-platform, working even on Windows and Mac platforms,” says Wade Olson, spokesperson for KDE, makers of the free KOffice version of Microsoft-like writing, spreadsheet, drawing and other favorites. The shift is toward software that works on cross-platform computers and provides a free or low-cost alternative to the long-standing monopoly held by Seattle-based Microsoft. It’s a competitive first for KDE, and indicative of an industry shift. A few months ago, this software community-known as KDE-rolled out its first free Office-style software for Windows users.
Ten years ago, a tiny software community launched free Microsoft-like programs for those with UNIX or Linux computer operating systems.
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