[Golden Eagle]

Let's see, a document format that can be read by anything, written by anything

I think you must have meant "read by 1% of computers, written by 1% of computers" instead, since that is about how common this format is.

[NJ_gent]

"I think you must have meant"

It can be written or read by any software which includes support for the freely available document format. OpenOffice is one product which supports it. Sun Microsystems' StarOffice commercial product is another. KOffice also supports the format, and Corel has said that their Wordperfect suite will add support for it. Thus far, I believe Microsoft is the only one dragging behind, but I'm sure they'll copy someone else's implementation in no time.