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Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? 212

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 30 2010, @09:28AM
from the share-well-everyone dept.

phy_si_kal writes "Now Microsoft must love free software. Indeed, Office 2011 for Mac (beta 5 at least) uses Freetype! Somehow they figured out the free software 'clean room implementation' of their own (patented) TrueType technology must better suit their needs."

Comment: Re:It won't work (Score 3, Informative) 1046

by zerblat on Friday May 07 2010, @08:30PM (#32135052) Attached to: Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

There is no such thing as AGWs. "Global Warming" has now become "Climate Change".

And you can than the previous administration for that. On Frank Luntz's recommendation, they started using the phrase "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming" to make it sound less frightening.

Comment: Re:Here's why (Score 1) 814

by zerblat on Tuesday October 06 2009, @01:42PM (#29660827) Attached to: Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa

Hypotheses. FTFY.

The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration 203

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 28 2009, @03:56AM
from the es-geht-immer-noch dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Currently, about 60% of desktops are using OpenOffice, with the remaining 40% to be completed by the end of 2009. Firefox and Thunderbird are being used in all of the city's desktop machines. Ten percent of desktops are running the LiMux Debian-based distro, and 80% will be running LiMux by 2012 at the latest. Autonomy was generally considered more important than cost savings, although the LiMux initiative is increasing competition in the IT industry in Munich already. The program has succeeded because the city administration has been careful to reach out to all stakeholders, from managers down to simple end users."

Comment: Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 4, Informative) 384

by zerblat on Monday May 11 2009, @03:51AM (#27903573) Attached to: Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5

(Firefox, assuming middlemouse.contentLoadURL is set to true)

Step 1: Triple click to highlight
Step 2: Middle click to load URL from primary selection.
Step 3: There is no step 3.