When Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project, some open-source developers were not happy. The Document ...

The free open-source alternative to Microsoft Office now has a new edition with enhancements for both users and developers. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

The Document Foundation, a non-profit fighting against vendor lock-in through free, open-source, and powerful tools, is announcing the next major release of LibreOffice, a community-driven and ...

When the Document Foundation released LibreOffice 3.4.2 earlier this month, the big news wasn’t so much that a new version was out. Rather, the big news was that LibreOffice had officially become ...

For decades, Microsoft’s suite of office apps has dominated the productivity space. But where you might once have only upgraded your version of Word, Excel and maybe PowerPoint every several years, ...

The final report on Free/Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) from the International Institute of Infonomics at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands is being viewed as a "major research ...

The Libre Software Meeting, LSM (or RMLL: Rencontre Mondiale du Logiciel Libre) is an international event consisting of conference presentations, round tables and practical workshops on Free and Open ...