Re: A supposedly patent-free suggestion/solution to the curious subpixel rendering in Fedora

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On 03/27/2009 05:44 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Anyway, to make it clear, the reason the filter in Xft and cairo is
patent-infringing is not because someone copied it from ClearType.  No.
It's infringing because the whole idea of subpixel filtered text rendering
is patented.  You can implement and reimplement and reimplement.  Doesn't
make a difference (until the patents expire).

Why is it enabled in F10 and F11's default freetype then?

Oops. Seems like an unintentional change I committed while fixing the ligature bug.

/me disables both

         Kevin Kofler

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