<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 12:11 AM Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 9:58 PM Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dcrossland@google.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dcrossland@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 8:32 PM Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 2:11 PM Peter Constable <<a href="mailto:pgcon6@msn.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">pgcon6@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems to me that there’s a good case study in that TrueType/TTO/OpenType have been with us for about 30 years and that, AFAIK, there have never been any patent suites or demands for licensing royalties throughout that time. (Someone
correct me if I’m overlooking something.)</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not enough. Fedora continued turning off subpixel-rendering and bytecode-interpretter in FreeType as long as the relevant MS patents were not expired.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Those were held by Apple, as I recall</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Subpixel-rendering was ClearType.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ok cool, makes sense. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When did Fedora turn on spr? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When did OFF 1.0.0 come out?</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></blockquote></div></div>
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