[MPEG-OTSPEC] Acknowledging sources

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 1:05 AM Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org> wrote:

> On 14/08/2020 23:16, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > - You on behalf of MS demanded that LSB/RSB variations (and by extension
> > TSB/BSB variations) be encoded in the HVAR/VVAR tables because the
> > obsolete GDI "ABC" API "needs them" and can't be bothered to get them
> > from the outlines.
>
> One thing which would at least mitigate some of these problems would for
> the spec to be honest about how ideas were originated and included. The
> features registry at least does this, so there's precedent.
>
> In a truly community-owned spec this would be unnecessary, as there
> would be an expectation that it was the consensus of multiple
> contributors. But for a spec which is maintained by one corporate
> entity, which claims ownership over the spec, to include contributions
> from others without acknowledging the source of those contributions is
> dishonest and disingenuous.
>
> Those of us with long memories of "embrace and extend" have some
> sensitivity for how MS has taken the ideas of others and berated them
> publicly before implementing them and claiming them as its own - this
> destroys trust and dissuades future contributions.
>

More importantly to the final product: mark junk like `post` table as
"required on Microsoft platforms" instead of "required".


> S
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