It matters if you have years of documents that you still need to be able to view/edit. Not everyone wants to upload these documents to an online service (i.e.

It matters if you have years of documents that you still need to be able to view/edit. Not everyone wants to upload these documents to an online service (i.e. google docs), so having a free option that is not tied into any monthly subscriptions is nice. Sometimes it's just nice to keep things local and not have to rely on the "cloud".