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 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, ...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. Although the severity ...

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 ...