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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.
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[–] odinist 0 points 1 point 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 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
OpenOffice has the better brand name. I guess it stuck with lots of people.
[–] 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.