Free Open Source Office Software
The free open source office software suite LibreOffice has only been in existence for six months. It was created in response to Oracle's unclear intentions regarding OpenOffice.org, which had long been the community's preferred open source productivity suite.
Oracle had chosen to keep OpenOffice to itself, but now it appears to be changing course. The company said it believes that the OpenOffice.org project would be best managed by an organization that is focused on development on a non-commercial basis. It remains to be seen what form the newly freed project will take next, especially considering how rapidly LibreOffice has been embraced by distros and users worldwide. There is a real question over whether OpenOffice still has a place in this world, and this has been fiercely debated on all the Linux blogs since the news broke.