In 2011, Oracle officially stopped developing OpenOffice.org and later donated the project to the Apache Software Foundation , where it became Apache OpenOffice . 4. Modern Day: Do you still need it?
A common misconception is that installing a JRE is complex or invasive. On Windows, Linux, or macOS, it’s a five-minute task: jre for openoffice
If you switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice hoping to escape Java entirely, you’ll be disappointed. The dependency is baked into the architecture of both. In 2011, Oracle officially stopped developing OpenOffice