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I suppose it is because of the feud between OpenOffice (Apache) and LibreOffice (Document Foundation). For years, OpenOffice has been Apache's most downloaded

I suppose it is because of the feud between OpenOffice (Apache) and LibreOffice (Document Foundation). For years, OpenOffice has been Apache's most downloaded project[1]. But it is only because of the past glory of this name when Sun promoted it, and by confusion with LibreOffice. When Apache was given OpenOffice by Oracle, they let the code rot, with just a few dozens commits a year. IIRC, their strict access policies lead them to reject the initial cooperation offers from the Document Foundation. So the Document Foundation "dropped" OpenOffice and created the fork LibreOffice (from Go-OpenOffice). Circa 2011, there were many angry post about this. [1]: The home page of "Apache OpenOffice" claims: "Over 3.2 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 ".

Macha 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Tomcat and the Apache HTTPd get more downloads than that, it's just harder to measure as they usually come from package repositories for various Linux distros or homebrew.
- idoubtit 7y ago
  When Apache published OpenOffice 4.0, there were about a million download per week, for a total of 85M downloads in 2.5 years[1]. Fortunately, that is no more the case. OpenOffice is in maintenance mode (last minor features were 5 years ago). So, even if the project seems alive at first glance, its user base is thinning out. [1]: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_in_2013_a https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_in_2013...