Back in October, a couple of developers, and community leaders in OpenOffice.org formed a new organization, and created LibreOffice.
They had a plan, but not a very well developed one. They had some ideas, but nothing laid out in concrete. The whole effort felt as if it had been drawn up on a Friday, implemented on a Saturday, and announced on Monday.
Two months later, and people are still wondering what it will offer. Or what it won't offer.
One of the issues raging on the LibreOffice mailing lists is whether or not LibO should be able to save, or export to OOXML, or, more precisely, the variant called DocX by Microsoft, and is allegedly the native file format of Microsoft Office.
The philosophically pure approach would be to neither read, nor write any file format implemented by Microsoft.
