Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 22:28 UTC
The vast majority of operating system reviews are the result of a user spending a few days or weeks using a particular operating system and writing about their observations. This review is the result of my continued use of Solaris 10 (previously Solaris Express) from August 2003 to February 2005.
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"Oh, and it'd be Red Hat and its customers who suffered if they shipped an enabled bytecode interpreter, because they'd get their asses sued off. It's patented and it's not legal to ship it in the U.S., period."
Do you want to tell me that companies like Redhat or Sun are unable to negotiate with Apple about a patent grant? If I would pay thousands of dollars for a Redhat product I'd surely expect readable fonts.
Btw. I know that all Linux distributions render truetype fonts via freetype and fontconfig but I was specifically referring to the bytecode interpreter which some distributions (eg. Gentoo) enable and others don't. And I find it rather embarrassing that the most expensive among them is unable to deliver nice looking truetype fonts. The situation in Solaris 10 is even more unfortunyte since the bitmap fonts (eg. Helvetica) are only aliases of other truetype fonts. But at least Solaris 10 is freely available without support.