[forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:53:53PM -0500, georgina o economou wrote:
> What is this another NIH problem?  No openness...just use Xft.
> That's ridiculous Havoc.  Closing your mind to alternatives just
> makes your solution weaker.

The font problem is already solved. STSF at this point doesn't add any
value, and introduces big user migration headaches because
fontconfig/Xft have already been widely deployed.

People *have* looked at STSF, they just don't see what value it adds.

Havoc