Firefox was a popular user facing application unlike a lot of open source projects before or since. So it makes sense that people in the open source world would

Firefox was a popular user facing application unlike a lot of open source projects before or since. So it makes sense that people in the open source world would look to Mozilla as role models. LibreOffice on the other hand hasn't really cracked into the main stream. So I don't see them filling that role in the near future.