Contrary what you may have read elsewhere, OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org/ OOo) is not dead and it’s not dying either.
To be fair, OpenOffice no longer is the default open-source office suite for the mainstream Linux distributions as LibreOffice has taken that mantle. That said, OpenOffice still has users and more important it still has developers and volunteers that will not let it die.
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