[MPEG-OTSPEC] Request for OFF Github Repo

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Sep 19 01:07:53 CEST 2020


Dave,

I haven't read your entire email. But just want to respond to the core of
where you are getting me wrong:

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:40 PM Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com>
wrote:

> But I repeat myself to say to you Behdad, that it is their format. I find
> it hard to be invited into someone's house and then complain they aren't
> sharing their best wine with me, so I'm grateful for all the community
> engagement they wish to offer; I keep in mind they have a right not to
> offer any. Since it seems okay for Apple to want to have a spec they
> control to match the implementations they control, I don't really see why
> Microsoft would not want to retain the OpenType ® spec that always matches
> their implementation.
>

Let me remind you again: I'm not feeling entitled to anything I'm not
entitled to. Read my argument at length here:


https://medium.com/@behdadesfahbod/violence-abuse-racism-and-colonialism-in-the-type-industry-807b7af2bbfa?source=friends_link&sk=6a9f769049ec0711ccfae9c8c8919b76

I'll respond with more detail in response to David Singer about how MS has
blocked others' contribution path to the OFF, which I remind you, is *not*
Microsoft's spec.
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