The OpenOffice.org (OOo) community has declared independence from Oracle as members have joined the LibreOffice project, a fork of the open source office suite. In an open letter published on the OOo ...

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 ...

Announcements at the LibreOffice Conference, held in Paris, October 12-15, included plans for LibreOffice Online as well as Android and iOS ports. Less than one year after announcing its first stable ...

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 ...

A key LibreOffice developer is preparing to turn the productivity site into a competitor for Google Apps and Microsoft Office Online LibreOffice‘s next big target isn’t Microsoft Office. It’s Office ...

As the seventh anniversary of its forking from OpenOffice.org looms, the free office suite LibreOffice has established itself as the most widely used free office suite, winning a race that began in ...

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 ...

The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.2, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. LibreOffice 7.2 arrives six months after TDF released LibreOffice ...

The LibreOffice project came about late in 2010 when it became increasingly uncertain what Oracle’s intentions were for OpenOffice.org, which it acquired after purchasing Sun. LibreOffice is overseen ...