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#title: Ugly TrueType and OpenType Font Display thanks to Patents

#descr: Rendering of Fonts is ugly and slow on Free Software Systems.  This is
because when the TrueType standard was promoted by Apple and
Microsoft, they held a few patents which they never asserted.  The
FreeType project has asked Apple to clarify the situation, but did not
get an answer.  Instead, fearful customers of Linux distributors such
as SuSE and Redhat have demanded that any possibly infringing FreeType
features be disabled on these distributions.  TrueType is the
dominating font standard and it is also a part of new standards such
as OpenType, in which Adobe participates.  Adobe also holds a few
patents on which OpenType infringes.  These formats must be supported
if GNU/Linux/XFree users are to be able to use existing fonts on their
platform of choice.

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