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Re:Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released by martey on Friday October 30, 2009 @06:29AM (#911815)
A lot of information surrounding #2 is discussed at http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html
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Re:Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released by ZeroGravitas on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:58AM (#911931)
I thought the patent issues were mostly about these older Apple patents:

http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

I'd not heard about these subpixel patents, but I'd be happy to have them removed from Linux as I honestly don't think they add that much in Mac OS X style font presentation, as opposed to Windows Cleartype style.

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