While the two share a common code base and similar missions, they differ in their feature sets and the licensing for their source code.įor some time, LibreOffice seemed to have taken the crown from OpenOffice. Lately, though, OpenOffice - formerly of Sun/Oracle, now under the aegis of the Apache Foundation - has taken a backseat to LibreOffice, an upstart spun off from OpenOffice's own source code. Well, presumably the Linux users are better educated and going straight for the modern and more maintained LibreOffice.Once, whenever you referred to the free productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office, people knew exactly which program you were talking about.

Interestingly the numbers they published on the blog put it at 297 million downloads by Windows users, 31 million downloads by macOS users, and just 4.7 million downloads by Linux users. This number also doesn't take into account the SourceForge mirror downloads and the like, so the actual number is even higher.

The Apache Software Foundation announced on Tuesday that there have now been more than 333 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice since they took over this open-source office suite in 2011. But the brand still has some presence and users discovering it when searching for open-source office software or free alternatives to the likes of Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice has seen little new feature development and at times has struggled to be maintained and keep up with security vulnerabilities, etc.

This week the Apache Software Foundation is celebrating more than 333 million downloads of their open-source office suite.īack in 2011 the OpenOffice code was donated to the Apache Software Foundation and unfortunately hasn't exactly flourished over the past decade.

While Apache OpenOffice development is rather stagnant, many of the original developers left for LibreOffice long ago, and LibreOffice has been delivering far more modern features and functionality, people continue to download OpenOffice.

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