High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bean is an open source free software word processor created and maintained by James Hoover. According to him, the focus of this program was not to replace Microsoft Word, but to write 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. It is currently available for Mac OS X only. The design of Bean was heavily influenced by Marten Van De Kraats' article "Lean Word Processor Specifics". It is especially suitable for note taking or writing short articles because the program is highly responsive and starts almost instantly, while full-featured office suites take a much longer time to boot. While Bean is not designed to compete with programs like OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, its feature set is complete enough to cover the needs of most casual users.

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