The joys of free, open-source software
Software can be expensive. Just go check out what you have to pay to buy certain things.
A copy of Microsoft Office 2007 costs over $300 as of this writing. Sure, you can use another lesser program like WordPad to write documents. But everybody has Microsoft Office, and WordPad won’t give you spreadsheets and database functions—or PowerPoint presentations. What’s a broke computer user to do? Read on…
