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 ...

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Oracle has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, it announced on Wednesday. OpenOffice.org is the most popular free productivity suite, and ...

Lotus Symphony is a free office suite that IBM has been offering for the past few years. While the software is based on OpenOffice.org, it’s been largely maintained as an independent fork, and much of ...

Members of the Apache Software Foundation, as expected, voted last week to accept Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice.org source code for an incubation project. Fears apparently exist among the ...

Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork" Apache is considering closing OpenOffice, the open-source office applications suite, because the project now has too ...