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LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.

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The non technical dependency layers: the Calendar and the Invoice

Earlier in this series I described the invisible architecture of lock-in as three stacked layers. A document depends on its format, which depends on a rendering engine to become visible, which depends on the fonts that give it its final shape. Each layer is a dependency the user rarely sees

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LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2026

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started by announcing LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth bugfix update to the current stable branch of the suite. Throughout the month, we continued our blog post

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The non technical dependency layers: the Calendar and the Invoice

Earlier in this series I described the invisible architecture of lock-in as three stacked layers. A document depends on its format, which depends on a rendering engine to become visible, which depends on the fonts that give it its final shape. Each layer is a dependency the user rarely sees

read more »

LibreOffice project and community recap: June 2026

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started by announcing LibreOffice 26.2.4, the fourth bugfix update to the current stable branch of the suite. Throughout the month, we continued our blog post

read more »