From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 15:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD6F37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15JN98-0003iF-00; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 10:35:22 +1200 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:35:22 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Dave Uhring Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Jim C. Nasby" , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: JFS In-Reply-To: <3B48DD64.6060304@charter.net> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Uhring wrote: > Microsoft product for its web site is one which cannot eat its own > dogfood. That's a Microsoft expression ("eating your own dogfood" refers to using the products you develop in a production setting, to shake out bugs etc). > If they have any "ingenuity" or "quality" of any kind one > would think that they would use it themselves. And it is not a matter > of a font which I don't like; actually I do like the Arial font, but it > is NOT a Unix font. What is a UNIX font? Arial is a TrueType font, designed by the Monotype foundry in UK (now owned by AGFA). TrueType is a font format originally designed by Apple. Microsoft licenses TrueType from Apple. Religious/political objections to technologies don't always work... -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message