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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...