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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?

    --
    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:Must burn. by Lunix+Nutcase · · 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.

  3. 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.

  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: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" ~