Did you read what newsforge wrote?

"With each new office suite and word processor release we become more 
concerned that software companies like Sun Microsystems, Corel, and even 
community projects like OpenOffice.org are more interested in competing with 
Microsoft Office than they are in developing excellent software. The new 
features and enhancements in each release are all about doing what Word does 
or mimicking Excel. Why not just worry about adding features and improvements 
that users want, rather than play catch-up with Microsoft?

StarOffice 8 leaves us with that catch-up feeling. It is a good office suite --
 better than Microsoft Office for the money, and better technically in many 
ways -- but it's trying too hard to be like the market leader. We'd rather see 
an intelligently designed office suite with a fresh approach than one that can 
do everything that Microsoft Office can."

http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/23/198225.shtml


I wholeheartedly agree. The concern expressed in above quote is exactly my 
criticsm of OOo.