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[–] 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.