[MPEG-OTSPEC] Request for OFF Github Repo

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:14 PM Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 7:08 PM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> You wrote a memo titled "An Open Proposal
> Fixing the Font Format" and posted it to his list around a month ago. The
> first line and main thesis is:
>
> "Move OpenType to W3C as a new Working Group."
>
> You did not write,
>
> "Move OpenFontFormat to W3C as a new Working Group."
>
> So, you use the word entitled, and I put it to you kindly that you seem
> entitled to the Microsoft OpenType ® spec.
>

It was a *proposal*, not a demand.
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