If there was any doubt as to the long-term capability of LibreOffice to sprint ahead of Oracle-backed OpenOffice.org, those concerns pretty much just flew out the window. In a wildly successful ...

In early January 2026, Abbott Laboratories unveiled Libre Assist, an AI-powered feature within its Libre app that helps U.S.

Software rights activist Richard Stallman is backing LibreOffice in the quest to provide a free software alternative to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org has long been the primary free and open source ...

As free office suites go you’d be hard pushed to find anything better than LibreOffice 7, a real alternative to Microsoft Office. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or ...

When Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project, some open-source developers were not happy. The Document ...

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that respects the freedom of computer users (private individuals, as well as organizations and companies), by putting the users first and ...

Last Friday we asked HEXUS readers to tell us all about what free software they would always install and recommend on a new build PC. A number of programs stood out as being backed by a large number ...