[openbeos] Re: GSoC: Sub-pixel antialiasing for font rendering

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:36:49 +0200 CEST

> In any case, patents only apply in certain countries, there is 
> nothing 
> wrong with implementing this technology as long as we don't violate 
> any 
> licenses and copyrights. Affected people might have to turn off the 
> technology in their Haiku builds though, similar to Freetype with the 
> hinting algorithm.
> 

One more reason to make sure software patents never pass in EU.
They are inherently flawed and missused.

François.

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