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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The next question is Open Office or Libre Office.
OO was a project of Sun Microsystems. Oracle bought Sun, and OO's future got cloudy. Various folks were unhappy, and created a fork of the Open Office code thy called Libre Office, to be out from under Oracle's control.
Oracle finally got around to transferring Open Office to the Apache Foundation and no longer is involved, but meanwhile the damage was done and there are now two similar products based on the same code but beginning to diverge. Either will do.
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Because of licensing differences, LibreOffice can copy code from OpenOffice but OpenOffice can't copy code from LibreOffice.
And LibreOffice had a big head start while OpenOffice languished.
I can't imagine why someone would prefer OpenOffice. All it has is the original and better-known name (though that is beginning to change).