Personally, I think they’re both great office suites. Although I’m more familiar with LibreOffice, I’ve used OpenOffice a few times, and I can see why people would prefer OO over LO, and vice versa.

  • Ephera
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    43 years ago

    I mean, alright, but I don’t think these should be compared on equal grounds.

    OpenOffice is pretty much abandoned, since 2011. Which is when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, who were governing OpenOffice’s development.
    When that happened, most of the OpenOffice developers went on to work on a fork of OpenOffice, which was called *drumroll* LibreOffice.

    Eventually, Oracle donated the “OpenOffice” trademark and transferred the project to the Apache Foundation.
    Since then, it has received rudimentary patches, but even security patches weren’t always timely.

    So, I’m sure there’s some people who prefer to keep the exact version of the office suite that they’ve known for years. And some will prefer OpenOffice due to its permissive license (Apache 2.0 vs. MPL 2.0 for LibreOffice).
    But yeah, for the vast majority of users, LibreOffice is simply OpenOffice + 9 years of development, and is therefore what they want to be using.

  • TheOPtimal
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    43 years ago

    OpenOffice is dead. Literally, it is left unmaintained.