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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM’s Lotus Symphony office suite has offered users a free Microsoft Office alternative since 2007, but last week saw the release of what’s very likely the last version of the software. Based itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...