That is simply not true. The whole reason LibreOffice exists is because of how badly Oracle did. LibreOffice has an open and democratic process that aligns with the open source philosophies, uses a good license and isn't being run by the ghost of what used to be OpenOffice.org. Apache suffers from a bad license, few contributors, few releases, many bugs and thousands and thousands of lines of cruft.

I am so glad that LO exists. Prior to that there was little development happening in regard to word processors for Linux. Now LO is making leaps and bounds.