Comments on: SoftMaker Office 2021 – The Premium Microsoft Office Alternative for Linux

By: Wendell Anderson

Wendell Anderson — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:05:50 +0000

The article author needs to explain more clearly how he arrives at title and premise that SoftMaker Office2021 is …” The ‘Premium’ Microsoft Office Alternative for Linux”, when he should know that many USA corporations, the American Library Association and many European Union (EU) nations have officially standardized on LibreOffice Office suite.

I am a subscriber of Softmaker Office for at least three years, and while I like the application and use it alongside my primary Office suite LibreOffice, I know that it’s adoption as compared to LibreOffice is quite small, even for “Premium” Office suite usage.

Every Linux distribution includes LibreOffice, and only now have a few also offered Free version of Softmaker Office as an option.

Tech article writers need to exercise substantially more testing, review and consideration “overall” of a application’s adoption, functionality and desired/required feature in the computer using community, including for Linux than making any statements of preference based only on anecdotal biases.

Based on more than twenty five years of personal, professional and expert experiences in technology, including work with a multitude of USA and International business, organizations, school systems and even individuals, this in one on those wrongly categorized cases as describes just above.

By: Andrzej Kraszewski

Andrzej Kraszewski — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:23:38 +0000

Really… I recomend to try LibreOffice or at least FreeOffice which are tottally free 🙂 I dn’t need to use Microsoft solutions to do my job.

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:30:08 +0000

In reply to merkuti01.

I agree with you, merk. Since Microsoft has remained adamant regarding Office on Linux, SoftMaker is the way to go.

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:49:25 +0000

In reply to Peopleunit.

The secondary use rights allows you to use your commercial licensed app on several computers with any legal restrictions.

By: Peopleunit

Peopleunit — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:40:50 +0000

Each version has 2 types of licenses – Non-commercial (which can be used on up to five computers at the same time), and Commercial
(which is to be used on only one computer but gives the owner the
secondary use right to use the app on a portable computer – among a few
other features).

I don’t understand this ‘secondary use rights’ thing… on a portable computer????

By: Roi Inbar

Roi Inbar — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:38:29 +0000

There is a Hebrew support with it?