> Well, I can imagine back at the time OpenOffice was a fresh project OpenOffice was born when Sun bought StarOffice, which was initially released in 1985 (on

> Well, I can imagine back at the time OpenOffice was a fresh project OpenOffice was born when Sun bought StarOffice, which was initially released in 1985 (on Z80 and certainly without any XML). So the project itself was far from fresh. OpenDocument was developed from OpenOffice.org XML format which was developed after Sun bought StarOffice in 1999. At the time XML was not used everywhere, but it was very much in vogue, certainly at Sun where the official line was that Java (created at Sun) and XML are going to conquer the world.