[–] libman ago 

Bad article. It's not "discontinued".

What was once called StarOffice / Sun / Oracle's OpenOffice.org (OOo) was handed off to the Apache Foundation, where it continued to be developed as Apache OpenOffice (AOO) [WP].

It was also forked by the Document Foundation under a less permissive license, with that fork being called LibreOffice. Some of their innovations have been controversial.

LibreOffice is more popular, but Apache OpenOffice is more stable, uses a more permissive license, and has more proprietary products that add value on top of the open source version.

Note that high-IQ people tend to avoid those kinds of products. All the functionality of a Word Processor (and much more) can be accomplished by writing a markup language (Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, etc) in an advanced text editor like Vim or Kakoune, with some scripting as needed. All functions of a Spreadsheet (and a lot more) can be achieved with data-frames in a scripting languages like Julia, Python, R, or Wolfram Mathematica - optionally also utilizing SQL.

[–] user9713 ago 

Wait, it got discontinued? I use LibreOffice, which, if I'm not mistaken, is built around the same source code.

[–] libman ago 

No it didn't. Just a bad article.

[–] JugglingReferee ago 

Microsoft benefits from having competitors like LibreOffice and OpenOffice. It shows just enough that MS Office isn't a monopoly.

[–] odinist 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Libre is so much better than Open; I can't imagine why people haven't switched.

[–] 3dk 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

OpenOffice has the better brand name. I guess it stuck with lots of people.