Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Apr 2007 18:53 UTC
As reported by Slashdot, debate has risen over ClearType in Linux. OpenSUSE recently disabled this technology, saying "that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents and should not be activated in any default build of the library". Other websites have picked up on this as well: "The strange thing is though: no matter the fact that Novell and Microsoft are now buddies, openSUSE still has to be concerned about the ClearType patents!"
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2006-02-02
Amen. As near as I can tell, the sequence was that a bug was reported, squashed as feature-not-a-bug, Beranger wrote his article, which slashdot completely misreported, and was responded to by Beranger here:
http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2805
The internet is typically a mob, and Novell's been nominated for a lynching-- they don't have to do anything wrong right now to be a villain.