Christian Schaller, a software engineering manager at Red Hat, has written an An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team to suggest that they "re-direct people who go to the ...

As I reported on May 31st, 2011, Oracle has, with IBM's encouragement, given the open-source OpenOffice office suite to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). IBM's Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Collaboration ...

Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is urging the community of volunteer developers to rally around the OpenOffice code base as the ...

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. Project leaders are particularly worried ...

It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like Microsoft Office, and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions ...

One of the questions would be why didn’t Oracle toss the code over to The Document Foundation, which is currently the maintainer of LibreOffice, the OpenOffice.org-forked office suite. On the surface ...

The developers of LibreOffice advise against its competitor OpenOffice. The Apache software contains security vulnerabilities and is not being further developed The developers of the open-source ...

Akira hackers say it's about to leak gigabytes of sensitive data When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Akira ransomware claims to have ...

LibreOffice, an open source clone of Microsoft Office, has patched a bug that allowed attackers to execute commands of their choosing on vulnerable computers. A similar flaw in Apache OpenOffice ...

Its free licensing and robust software suite make Apache OpenOffice a boon for small businesses who don't have the budget to outfit their office with commercial software. It's also versatile: While ...

The Apache Software Foundation is said to have been the target of a cyberattack in the context of OpenOffice, during which criminals copied internal data. At least, that's what the ransomware gang ...

Apache's OpenOffice suite supports almost three dozen languages through the installation of separate language packs. After you install a particular language, you can ...