I’ve been using this free office suite in Linux, Windows and as a portable app on a pendrive for a while now. Its fast, light on resource usage and if your needs aren’t heavy I would say its a better choice that LibreOffice.
How much of the 10 Euro cents actually goes to the poor? Probably not much as most if not all charities are run like for-profit businesses who cut a big chunk of the donated money for their own fees, and especially their CEO’s salary. I personnally never bother, prefer to help family members and friends in need, and the community.
Last week outside the supermarket I gave 5 euro to a collector for Warchild, that is 65 times downloading FreeOffice Suite. What's the point of 10 cents other than feel-good promotion of their software?? (can't help, I'm a cynic)
EDIT: on a more postive note :-) :how many downloads would one think they will have before Christmas??
IMHO that’s a great idea: you get excellent office suites for free, and SoftMake gives money to charity. It’s never been easier to help by getting something!
I presume that you don’t have a single piece of freeware or shareware on your systems then if you are so sure that only programs you pay for are free of such risk.
Heck its not as if SoftMaker are saying they will only donate if you install and run the program. All you have to do is download it. What you do with it once you’ve downloaded it is your choice. Unless you are using every bit of your internet bandwidth every second of the day grab it and do some good. Its not a big download, approx. 60MB.
As I said earlier I use FreeOffice nearly all the time and its faster and less resource hungry than the other MS Office alternatives.
SoftMaker is actually a really old company, and they seem to be quite legitimate. Nice free alternative to MS Office, for Windows and Linux and Android as mentioned. FreeOffice is their slightly limited free version.
