Today marks the one-year anniversary of The Document Foundation (TDF) and the LibreOffice project, a promising community-driven fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo). The project has seen considerable growth ...

Oracle announced a proposal this week to transfer the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The move would put OOo under the umbrella of the Apache Incubator program ...

A large legacy code base is a challenge for any team to embrace and improve. So how well does a distributed team of volunteers address the problem? A talk at FOSDEM shed light on how the large and ...

LibreOffice, the popular open-source office suite, is arguably the best desktop-based office suite. Why? Italo Vignoli, co-founder of The Document Foundation, explains: 1. Independence from a single ...

When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

LibreOffice, the free and open-source replacement for Microsoft Office, has joined the ‘End of 10’ project to move Windows 10 PCs to Linux. LibreOffice and desktop Linux can “offer a powerful, privacy ...

Veteran free software and open source developer Michael Meeks has expanded on the issues faced by the LibreOffice project which were briefly touched on by iTWire recently, drawing from a post on the ...

LibreOffice, the best open-source office suite, which has long battled Microsoft Office, will take on Google Docs and Office 365 in this incarnation. You may be asking, do we really need another ...

Earlier this week, AttachMate subsidiary Suse announced it was stopping development of LibreOffice and will facilitate the migration of staff contributors to a new business focussed on the code.

Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline. These steps officially ...