
Both originate in, a project run by Sun Microsystems from 2000-2011. To pretend otherwise is a distortion of the truth.Īs you might know, the two office suites share a common history (Figure 1). However, by every possible standard, LibreOffice outshines OpenOffice and shows OpenOffice to be outdated. Even more importantly, many comparisons strive for a false sense of objectivity by declaring that any differences are minor. Many offer only a superficial glimpse at either office suite from the viewpoint of an unsophisticated and undemanding user. However, what is surprising is how shallow many of those comparisons are. That number comes as no surprise, given that LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the best-known open source office suites and share a common past. A search for comparisons of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice returns over 8.3 million results.
