A free, open-source office software suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database applications. It was developed as an alternative to proprietary office software like Microsoft Office.
Compound of English 'open' (freely accessible) and 'office' (workplace software suite). Originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 2000s, derived from the earlier StarOffice suite after Sun open-sourced the code.
OpenOffice sparked a major revolution in software accessibility by proving that high-quality office applications could be developed collaboratively and distributed for free. The project later split into Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice due to community disagreements, creating two competing branches of essentially the same codebase.
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