openSuSe versus retail

[Kurt Granroth]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007, vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> A propos ---
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/04/10/0252229.shtml
>
> Turns out (it says here) that OpenSuse disables ClearType
> because it infringes Microsoft patents.

Apparently this is an extremely misleading summary.  The comments (at least 
earlier this morning) were pretty level-headed about this.  *ALL* 
distributions have *always* disabled this by default due to the potential 
patent problems.  And specifically, this only applies to the auto-hinting 
part of it... a pretty narrow case.  This situation has been around since 
long before Novell even bought SuSE, much less before the Novell-MS patent 
deal.

Kurt