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 ...

The Apache Software Foundation disputes claims that its OpenOffice project suffered an Akira ransomware attack, after the ...

On October 29, Akira posted a darknet message claiming to have breached Apache OpenOffice and stolen 23 GB of internal data, ...

The best open source desktop applications With so many free and amazingly capable open source desktop apps available, it’s a wonder anyone still pays for software. And with OpenOffice and LibreOffice ...

The ransomware group Akira claims to have copied 23 gigabytes of data during an attack on Apache OpenOffice. However, this is ...

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 ...

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The organization responsible for the popular open-source Apache Web server software confirmed Thursday that its servers were broken into, the second attack this month on a high-profile open-source ...

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