Re: NT shuts out third-party font packages

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 06:54 PM 12/20/98 -0500, Christopher Pall wrote:
> 
> >How does this prevent your friend from developing his own software rendering
> >package?
> 
> NT has no documented way of allowing him to replace, or even supplement,
> the TrueType font rendering engine. Microsoft shut out competitors
> Adobe and Bitstream, and him as well.

The point is valid.  Even if he could generate fonts that were supported
by NT, Microsoft to make them go the way of Adobe and Bitstream with win
2000...

A new joke for you, a friend of mine dropped me an email referring to
Win 2000 as Win 2k, I told him that that was probably a more reasonable
name for it, because that's when all the bugs will be worked out,
2024...  I've used the same reference to the Y2K bug....

> 
> --Brett

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You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????