I have heard they’re the main two choices for FOSS enthusiasts. What are their pros and cons?
I have used LibreOffice so far and I’m very impressed with the ui as it is much more visually appealing than IWork and Microsoft Office.
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In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, which held the trademark for the OpenOffice.org project. The open-source community that developed OpenOffice.org was worried that Oracle would do bad things, so they set up a non-profit, The Document Foundation, and established the LibreOffice project. Most of the outside contributors moved over to contributing to LibreOffice instead.
A few years later, Oracle donated the OpenOffice trademark to the Apache Software Foundation, which is why Apache OpenOffice now theoretically exists. But yeah, it hasn’t seen a non-bug-fix release since 2014. You simply want to use LibreOffice at this point…
IIRC it wasn’t just worry that Oracle would do bad, it was Oracle’s slowness/reluctance at incorporating patches and fixes, and that they were making OpenOffice unnecessarily dependent on Oracle’s Java.
the same way a healthily developing young person compares to their parent in the paliative care ward, whose religious relatives won’t agree to turn off the respirator because “look they still have a heartbeat”.
Dang the situation is sadder than I thought.
You might be mixing up OpenOffice and OnlyOffice
OpenOffice is dead
OnlyOffice & LibreOffice are the two FOSS programs that people recommend.
Personally I like OnlyOffice a bit better, but I keep them both installed and updated
