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Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 30, 2010 @02:28AM 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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Re:Must burn. by Lunix+Nutcase · 2010-08-30 02:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why would it burn them up? There is no financial justification for porting Cleartype when they can just use for Freetype for their Mac version. If they were switching the Windows version to Freetype that would actually be a story.