Comments on: The Ill Effects of Software Patents on Font Rendering http://techrights.org/2007/06/29/font-rendering/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: This is all ridiculous! http://techrights.org/2007/06/29/font-rendering/comment-page-1/#comment-4898 This is all ridiculous! Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:57:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/29/font-rendering/#comment-4898 Oh c'mon! You said in the article that <b> UBUNTU DISTRIBUTES TRUETYPE TOO! </b> The site says BOYCOTT NOVELL, NOT BOYCOTT UBUNTU! Also, although they failed miserably, Novell was trying to do something good for the linux community when they "signed the treaty". Note that Microsoft is now targeting Novell SUSE linux explicitly in their attack-ads. I don't think that the decision Novell made was right, but Novell has done a lot for the linux community. Proprietary Software on Linux is a bad thing, but right now it is somewhat needed because if the average WinDo$e user found out about Linux and it DIDNT support their favourite flash sites, java, fonts, etc they would laugh and call us linux users n00bs and keep on funding Bill Gates's retirement. Novell is trying to make linux more comfortable for Microsoft users. Oh c’mon!
You said in the article that UBUNTU DISTRIBUTES TRUETYPE TOO!
The site says BOYCOTT NOVELL, NOT BOYCOTT UBUNTU!

Also, although they failed miserably, Novell was trying to do something good for the linux community when they “signed the treaty”. Note that Microsoft is now targeting Novell SUSE linux explicitly in their attack-ads. I don’t think that the decision Novell made was right, but Novell has done a lot for the linux community. Proprietary Software on Linux is a bad thing, but right now it is somewhat needed because if the average WinDo$e user found out about Linux and it DIDNT support their favourite flash sites, java, fonts, etc they would laugh and call us linux users n00bs and keep on funding Bill Gates’s retirement. Novell is trying to make linux more comfortable for Microsoft users.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/06/29/font-rendering/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:34:51 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/29/font-rendering/#comment-1103 I was under the impression that SUSE (maybe I got confused here with SLES/SLED) had some proprietary bits because there was a discussion about this in Ted Haeger's blog last year. It revolved around some people's desire for a more Fedora-like set of applications. Also see: http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/10/opensuse-survey-commercial/ Either way, thanks for pointing that out. I was under the impression that SUSE (maybe I got confused here with SLES/SLED) had some proprietary bits because there was a discussion about this in Ted Haeger’s blog last year. It revolved around some people’s desire for a more Fedora-like set of applications. Also see:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/10/opensuse-survey-commercial/

Either way, thanks for pointing that out.

]]> By: Anonymous http://techrights.org/2007/06/29/font-rendering/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Anonymous Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:55:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/29/font-rendering/#comment-1102 > later pointed out that proprietary software may be included in out-of-the-box Opensuse. You're such great disclosure journalists. NOT! Breaking news: the boxed openSUSE contains and has for long proprietary software. Same for the openSUSE download DVD (eg Flash, RealPlayer, Opera). > later pointed out that proprietary software may be included in out-of-the-box Opensuse.

You’re such great disclosure journalists. NOT!

Breaking news: the boxed openSUSE contains and has for long proprietary software. Same for the openSUSE download DVD (eg Flash, RealPlayer, Opera).

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