Bean (software)
Bean is a word processor currently available for Mac OS X only. Up until version 3, Bean was free and open source software, but has since become closed source. Bean is still free of charge however. According to its creator James Hoover, it is not meant to replace Microsoft Word, but to be a lean word processor that was beautiful and user friendly. Many of the operations of Bean are carried out by the underlying Cocoa framework of Mac OS X; the name Bean is a play on Cocoa and Java, two popular programming frameworks.
After the release of Bean 3.2.2 in November 2012, James Hoover announced an intention that "active development of Bean will cease. Bean will remain available for download at the bean-osx.com website. It may even be updated as necessary to keep the app running on future versions of OS X. Also, I'll try to continue technical support at the usual email address." Since this announcement, Hoover has provided three further updates or fixes for Bean, reaching version number 3.2.5 by March 2013.
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