Sunday, April 15, 2007
Microsoft: Never Really Helping Open source
Microsoft: Never Really Helping Open source
16 April 2007, SDA India
It is Microsoft once again against open source! (So what's new?). This time, it is over their ClearType technology. The reason why the fonts are better in Windows as compared to Linux is the ClearType technology that Windows uses. Doug Schaefer feels that Microsoft is never going to extend the patent protection on ClearType to all of the Linux community, and that in the fuzz between ClearType and FreeType, and between open source and software patents, it is the user who pays the price.
Read this brief news item @ SDA India
16 April 2007, SDA India
It is Microsoft once again against open source! (So what's new?). This time, it is over their ClearType technology. The reason why the fonts are better in Windows as compared to Linux is the ClearType technology that Windows uses. Doug Schaefer feels that Microsoft is never going to extend the patent protection on ClearType to all of the Linux community, and that in the fuzz between ClearType and FreeType, and between open source and software patents, it is the user who pays the price.
Read this brief news item @ SDA India
Labels: microsoft, patents, problems
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