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Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly

The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling? The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it

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LibreOffice, yours for a lifetime

On 13 October 2026, Microsoft ends support for Office 2021. No more security updates, no more fixes, no more assurances. The software will still launch. It will still open your files. But from that date it becomes a liability rather than an asset — and the only sanctioned path forward

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FBSimCity v0.6.0: the replication district — journal segments, commit order, and a synchronous replica that dies

FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.6.0 with a new replication district. Replication without a log Firebird has no write-ahead log to ship, so its replication is logical — and it has to be. As each transaction commits, the changes themselves are written into a replication journal segment. When a segment fills it is sealed and queued for the replicator,

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node-firebird catches up: roadmap complete, issue tracker at zero

Big news for anyone using Firebird from Node.js: the pure-JavaScript node-firebird driver shipped eight releases in under a week (v2.6.0 → v2.14.0), completing its entire roadmap and closing all 47 open issues — some dating back to 2015. The driver now stands at feature parity with the best Node.js drivers for Postgres and MySQL, while staying pure JavaScript with zero native

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