Chez Augustin

see:
http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html

IBM which used to be the Bad Big Brother of the 80s has changed its image in the 21st century: since 2000, they have been investing a billion dollars in Linux and they have been playing the Free Software card more and more.

This is a good news. I use OpenOffice everytime one of you send me a .doc file. You can download it here: http://www.openoffice.org/ .

In related news, Microsoft has failed in his bid to have their "OOXML" document framework (used for Word, excells, etc.) recognized as an ISO standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooxml
"The specification was developed by Microsoft as a successor of its binary office file formats"

M$'s OOXML is competing with the ODF (Open Document Format) standard proposed by OpenOffice and other Free Software companies.
IBM's involvement with OpenOffice might be a great boost for ODF.

ODF is really a good standard: your document is not dependent on a particular software. The document source is written is a simple, human-readable XML language, so there is no lock-in to a particular software ("lock-in" being a M$ trademarked business practice).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
"The OpenDocument standard meets the common definitions of an open standard, meaning the specification is freely available and implementable."