TL;DW: Apache OpenOffice is not actively maintained. LibreOffice is. Both have heritage in the same original (non Apache) OpenOffice.
Apache OpenOffice is not actively maintained
it makes me wonder why people still use it
I think they just don’t know. They just search for OpenOffice perhaps and it comes up. I think I had actually looked before installing libreoffice. At this point Apache should just archive OpenOffice and redirect to libreoffice.
Do that many people in 2025 not know that while OpenOffice was first, LibreOffice is the more actively maintained fork and that OpenOffice has been somewhat problematic in the past and is kinda avoided?
What’s with the filters?
what about more minimal office apps, like calligra?
I clicked your link, and I actually like how that office suite has the options on the left rather than the top. Like it was made for widescreen monitors.
The only other office suite I’ve seen do that is Apple’s. As a Mac user, I recognised the style immediately. So I use iWork stuff because it’s on my Mac already and it’s good enough for me. I like the way LibreOffice is looking but I don’t need another office suite. But I really like the way calligra looks. It might need some polish, but they have some good ideas.
Was it before or after Oracle acquired Sun that the fork happened? I’m fairly sure it was Oracle that passed the project across to Apache and I have no idea why the Apache foundation accepted it.