DeanFujioka wrote:
What does xft stand for?
Basically xft (x Free Fonts) is Free-Source's answer to the truetype
fonts (ttf). Adobe (and probably to some extent, Microsoft) owns the
rendering engine, which is proprietary, and libraries for ttf. OTOH,
while you cannot copyright a truetype font (or any other font), you can
trademark its name. Without a license, which is unlikely to be granted
by Microsoft, a Linux distro cannot legally distribute many of the
popular truetype fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial, or many Microsoft
fonts (mainly because of trademark infringement). This has caused a lot
of problems with Mozilla, making it at least superficiously inferior to
IE. Now things can begin to change.
