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Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the share-well-everyone dept.

phy_si_kal writes "Now Microsoft must love free software. Indeed, Office 2011 for Mac (beta 5 at least) uses Freetype! Somehow they figured out the free software 'clean room implementation' of their own (patented) TrueType technology must better suit their needs."

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  1. Hold Me, I'm Scared by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft proclaims they love open source, rumors of Ballmer's departure ... and now this?

    Maybe god does exist?

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    1. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared by __aayejd672 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hell is starting to get a bit chilly.

    2. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared by o'reor · · Score: 2, Funny

      Flying pigs spotted here too.

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    3. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared by dunkelfalke · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is Pink Floyd recording a new album?

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  2. EEE by mark72005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm confused. What is Microsoft trying to EEE by doing this?

  3. Re:Must burn. by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 1, Funny

    They're obviously using the Mac as their testbed - notice its also in a beta.

    If its a success on the Mac, it'll make its way to Windows soon enough.

    They wouldn't want to test it on Windows - if its a massive failure it'll hurt the Windows image... But not on a Mac!

  4. Re:How Do You Figure? by KlomDark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mac users shouldn't even be allowed to be citizens.

    Simply owning an Apple product is a clear statement that a person has no concern for their own rights or the future of mankind.

    No better than uneducated slaves, keep them in their cages to protect the true thinkers from their short-sited views.

  5. Re:Must burn. by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given that the context is desktop software, you have a very strange idea for the term "recent".

  6. Re:Must burn. by VGPowerlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well of course. The Mac ports have pretty much always been a second-class citizen to the Windows version.

    Only recently. Excel originated on the Mac - 1.0 was Mac-only in 1985.

    Mac ports have been second class citizens for no less than 15 years. In computing terms, 15 years is not "recently."

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  7. Re:How Do You Figure? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. Another way to write a flame baiting title for TFS here would be "Mac text rendering sucks so much that Microsoft uses Freetype instead" ~

  8. Re:How Do You Figure? by the_fat_kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Glenn, is that you?

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  9. Re:Must burn. by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, some of us try to live every day as if it were still 1985.

  10. Re:How Do You Figure? by Zarf · · Score: 2, Funny

    +1 inciteful

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