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Re: [News] User Pays the Price in Microsoft Patent Disputes

  • Subject: Re: [News] User Pays the Price in Microsoft Patent Disputes
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:01:57 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <2770175.MRX5kqoe32@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft: Never Really Helping Open source
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft is in news again for being rather unhelpful towards open
> | source again, this over their ClearType technology.
> `----
> 
> http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,16930,p,0.html
> http://tinyurl.com/22pm5k
> 
> Just like the case of DRM, the companies gain at the expense of the poor
> customer.

The infringing bytecode interpreter technology in Freetype2 has been
disabled in Fedora and Red Hat builds for a long, long time now. I can't
speak for other distros.

"Is FreeType 2 Affected by the Patents?

The answer is no for any recent build of FreeType 2, since it comes with
an âauto-hintingâ module that was specifically designed to completely
ignore the TrueType bytecode instructions.

However, the source code for the bytecode interpreter is still available
and can be toggled on at compile time, for those that want to use it
anyway (because they purchased a license from Apple, or because they are
in a country where the patents do not apply, etc.). For details please
check the documentation that comes with your FreeType source package (it
normally involves changing one configuration macro)."

 - http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5
 22:54:11 up 5 days,  7:05,  2 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.43, 0.41

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