New Commercial Word Processor For FreeBSD

martin-k writes "There is commercial software built for FreeBSD after all... SoftMaker, a German vendor of office apps, just ported the TextMaker word processor to FreeBSD, making this the fifth platform it runs on (after Windows, Pocket PC, Handheld PC, and Linux). Blazingly fast, reads and writes Microsoft Word files seamlessly, and offers everything you expect from a modern word processor. Also coming to your desktop: the PlanMaker spreadsheet and DataMaker database package."

Comments

Infringement?

[agent dero]

Maybe I am unclear on the copyright infringement thing and everything, but doesn't this conflict with MS in some way?!

I mean, Open Office is freeware (also works on FreeBSD) but they're selling something like this with Word capabilities? I smell trouble...or maybe it's just me ;-)

BTW, I am not a fan of commercial apps for OSS platforms, seems contradicting somehow