That already exists: it's called Collabora Office (https://www.collaboraoffice.com/solutions/collabora-office/) and made by one of the largest contributing firms behind LO (Collabora).

I did some work for Collabora for a few months. Those guys are amazing! If you want a commercial support contract for any of the software they develop, just do it. They do a fair price for corporates, believe in open source and thus I found my colleagues were super responsive to paying customers and took a great deal of pride in the quality of their work.

They also actively pushed out their code in usable format I to the main codebase. And they did it frequently. They also got access to documents for testing and performance testing others didn't have access to, so the stuff they pushed out actively helped the project, but because they had support contracts they were able to backport to versions the main developers wouldn't consider.

This is probably the best workable solution if the projects were to merge somehow as it preserves the attempted marketing niche of each "name".

I haven't followed this in a long time but I thought Sun/Oracle management of OpenOffice was crux of the problem? I've probably been out of the loop for too long.

That was the problem before it became an Apache project. It should not be a problem anymore.

Some AOO developers appear to have a superiority complex. It is visible in the discussion.

There are people on both sides that suffer from that condition. It does nothing to improve or further the discussion.

I love it this idea. Make OpenOffice the LTS release for liver office. (I'm going to leave this autocorrect as is because it shows the proble with libre)