I am actually looking forward to hearing from the people here. Yeah Low-effort I know.
But I think this is an important topic to discuss, considering how much of the FOSS community is kept afloat by unpaid & volunteer-labour.
I am especially looking forward to any discussions of possible solutions
… Open office is dead ? I installed it least than an year ago on my parent computer…
I almost expected someone to learn that just from me posting. 😅
Basically, OpenOffice used to be organized by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun got bought by Oracle back in 2010.
Oracle does not have a good reputation at all, so the OpenOffice devs from back then figured they’d need to take things into their own hands and set up The Document Foundation to organize further development. But the OpenOffice trademark was owned by Sun/Oracle, so they had to rename and get a new homepage and everything. The name they chose is LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/
After the OpenOffice project was effectively dead, Oracle handed it and its trademark over to the Apache Foundation, where it’s seeing occasional bug fixes. But to my knowledge, they don’t even have the capacity to fix all the security problems.
All the actual feature development happens over on the LibreOffice side.
So, in practice, if you want OpenOffice, what you really want is LibreOffice.
It’s not dead, it’s run by Apache now. But LibreOffice is much more active and widely used.