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 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 ...

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 ...

LibreOffice is a free, open-source, cross-platform suite of office apps including software for creating spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. There are versions of LibreOffice available for ...

LibreOffice has released version 5.0 of its office suite, boasting what the company says is a more useful, intelligently designed user interface. If that sounds a little boring—well, it is.

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 ...

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that respects the freedom of computer users (private individuals, as well as organizations and companies), by putting the users first and ...

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 ...