Freeware GOOD!

The other day I had to edit a 208 mb file, yes that's two hundred and eight megabytes. I opened it up in StarOffice 5.2 under SuSe linux. It worked. It didn't crash. In fact, I copy and pasted over 10,000 lines from a text doc to a spreadsheet and did calculations on them. Big whoop? Try it in MS Word and Excel and tell me how you fare.