Christopher Fynn wrote:
OpenType is an openly available specification for fonts which anyone can use without paying a licence to adobe or microsoft who maintain the specification
While Microsoft and Adobe maintain the OT specification, it should be noted that the OT spec is in synch with the OpenFont Format specification, which is an ISO spec under the MPEG standard. The two specifications are not formally required to remain in synch, but this appears to be everyone's intention, and both Microsoft and Adobe have been using the ISO standards process to develop and publish updates to the spec.
JH
