I do not think that free CDs are needed as much as better advertising. However...
It would help, tremendously, if some creatively adept developers were to bring OpenOffice (OO) out of its Word for DOS 5.0 days (okay... maybe Office for Windows 4.3) by adding functionality at least equivalent to Office 2000, XP, or 2003.
I have OO 3.1.1 available and use it when necessary (i.e. working in LinuxMint) but otherwise avoid it because it is so clunky, functionless, and a pill to figure out. (I am not sure that OO 3.2 is any better, functionally, and it is not yet packaged for Ubuntu or LinuxMint, according to Synaptic Package Manager).
Google Docs is quick and accessible, and it works.
Nonetheless, before I turn in finished documents, I login to Windows XP and complete them in MS Office (2007, currently).
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