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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. Patents expired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to www.truetype.org and read the section on patents.
    "All patents related to the TrueType bytecode interpreter have expired since May 2010. More information regarding this topic is available at our patents page."
    All patents were originally held by Apple up to May 2010.