[MPEG-OTSPEC] Request for OFF Github Repo

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:21 PM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

And let me remind you that I'm *still* working with Google and Peter on
COLRv1 proposal that MS invited into OpenType.

I'm not enemies with anyone. I'm just asking others to play fair. That's
all.
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