You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free

There are two free versions: one for Classic MacOS, made freeware when WordPerfect discontinued Mac support, and a native Linux version, for which Corel offered a free, fully-working, demo version. The closest thing to a free version is the plain-text-only WordPerfect Editor. Edit: I do not know if Corel operates a policy like Microsoft, where owning a new version allows you run any older version. Hope springs eternal: there is a free emulator called SheepShaver that can emulate classic MacOS on Intel-based Macs, and the WPDOS site has a downloadable, ready-to-use instance of the emulator all set up with MacOS 9 and WordPerfect for Mac. Efforts are afoot to get it to run natively on some of the later PowerMac G4 machines on which Apple disabled booting the classic OS. I must try this on my Mac mini G4 and iBook G4. The non-Windows version of WordPerfect that lived the longest was the Linux edition. Now, there's a script, and all you need to do is download the script, grab the WordPerfect 8.0 Downloadable Personal Edition, put them in a folder together and run the script, and voilá. MS made this freeware at the turn of the century as a free Y2K update for all previous versions of Word for DOS. How to get it: Microsoft Word for DOS - it's FREE. Sadly, MS didn't make the last ever version of Word for DOS free.