This is a relatively interesting take -- if offices need specific pieces of office software, there's no free alternative, and you don't have the budget for Microsoft, what do you do?

ProjectLibre: October 2012 Project of the Month | SourceForge Community Blog:
Rich: So far as the third world goes, thereโ€™s an enormous amount of illegal software use. Your project and ones like it also fill a role there. Can you talk a bit about that?

Marc [ProjectLibre lead, I think]: I really feel passionately about this because it is a moral dilemma, around the world, whether you manage your project on a spreadsheet or whether you pay $1000 a copy for Microsoft Project or other proprietary vendors.

Guess that makes sense.

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