Here's OpenOffice's recent story. In an email titled "What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve?", Apache OpenOffice Vice President Dennis Hamilton wrote, "In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing ...

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost ...

OpenOffice, once the premier open source alternative to Microsoft Office, could be shut down because there aren't enough developers to update the office suite.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice are both free, open-source office suites, but which one is the best? In this guide, we'll compare both sets of productivity apps.

Sun got bought by Oracle in 2010 and commercial development of OpenOffice.org was officially terminated shortly thereafter. When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of ...

Apache Open Office is being developed under a permissive Apache license whereas LibreOffice uses "copyleft" licences - GNU's LGPLv3 and the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2) - that protect developers ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been ...

The reigning champ: LibreOffice 4.1 It’s somewhat astonishing how quickly LibreOffice grabbed the spotlight from its older brother, but at least some of the blame belongs to the way OpenOffice ...

OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times.. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down to just 16 people ...

Controversy over LibreOffice adoption figures arose last October when Rob Weir, an OpenOffice contributor and IBM architect who works on the Open Document Format, wrote the aforementioned series ...

LibreOffice developers claim to have met feature parity with OpenOffice.org 3.3 (still in release candidate), including new fonts, 1 million rows in a spreadsheet, improved slide layout handling ...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the ...