Is it just me or are the alternatives on the web, i.e. Google Docs good enough? I mean, if you're going to write some long papers, you'll probably just use MS Office anyways, right? At least personally, I don't use anything now other than Google Docs.
I could see Google Docs replacing OpenOffice for me if it were available offline. An online-only document service that doesn't let me sync and edit/read offline isn't that useful to me though.