A free MS Office?? Wow

Since I've been working all week and weekend, it took until today for me to really delve into my technical question. I researched a product called OpenOffice. OpenOffice is an open source application which works much the same way as MS Office.
I've used and enjoyed MS Office since High School, but I have to admit that the idea of a free version of MS Office is really cool. Through my research I found that there may be some glitches along the way using OpenOffice, I'll bet for the average Joe, OpenOffice would work just fine.
While the prospect of OpenOffice is nice when thinking about a productivity suite for business or non-profit organizations, I'm really excited about the idea of such powerful software being free to all. It seems great that the software could be distributed to those less fortunate. I'm thinking that maybe organizations which make recycled computers available to the poor should distribute OpenOffice with the computer. Becoming familiar with OpenOffice will help those individuals transition smoothly to MS Office in the workplace.