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 ...

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 ...

Oracle's (or Larry Ellison's) last control-freak tantrum was a sort of poison-pill change to the licensing on OpenOffice from LGPL to Apache -- which while technically an open source style license, is ...

OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family. The project is known as Apache OpenOffice.org (incubating). Over its 12-year history, the ASF has welcomed contributions from individuals ...

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 ...

OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down to just 16 people, ...

Free doesn’t have to mean flimsy.

In recent weeks, Oracle has taken two premier open source technologies gained through the company’s 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems — the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Project Hudson ...

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 ...

The ransomware group Akira claims to have hacked Apache OpenOffice, stealing 23 GB of internal data and exposing Apache Foundation employees to potential risks. The ransomware group Akira, active ...