OpenOffice is dead. Long live LibreOffice

I entirely agree. What you, I or Joe geeks use does not matter a bit. Personally I use mostly LaTeX, then Libre Office, then Google doc, and the occasional KWord when LO cannot open an MS document. If a new soft comes out tomorrow, that does something I need, I will just add it to my toolkit.

OpenOffice started to matter on the global scale when governmental agencies over the world started to migrate from MS Office. Such migration are huge. They involve hiring entire teams of experts (or train the existing IT support), redeveloping entire pipelines of work, and deal with the legacy documentation.

Most people have no idea how consequential where the moves of Oracle when it forced the community to move from OOo to LO, and then gave the project to Apache. This entirely shattered the little trust in FOSS people had spent a decade to instill. OpenOffice was THE successful FOSS project (Linux is not perceived as such by the public at large because it is invisible for non-geek, e.g. hidden in my parents' wifi router. And Firefox did not matter because all browsers are gratis). The entire domain of FOSS lost credibility, and the wide perception is that community-maintained projects lack maturity and robustness, and are something you must avoid at all cost.

We will suffer a long time from that mess.