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[Thomas Dowling]

>>         BOSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
>>    today announced that its TrueType(R) font technology has been extended
>>    to the World Wide Web, allowing designers to create great-looking Web
>>    pages that consumers can view -- even if they haven't bought the
>>    specific typefaces for their PCs.  Forty industry leaders -- including

>Notice this says "for their PCs".  The Web was developed to provide
>a platform-independent information system.  Should libraries
>be throwing away this patform independence by getting into bed
>with Mr Gates?!

Ooh, let's all bash Microsoft.  C'mon--vent, people!

Now let's read ALL of the first paragraph from this press 
release: "The TrueType-for-the-Web solution will 
include...a royalty-free cross-platform licensing program 
for Microsoft's high-performance TrueType rasterizer, which 
allows all platforms to support TrueType technology."

Thomas Dowling
(Strongly suspecting that the future of the net involves getting
into bed with either Mr. Gates or Mr. Andreesen, and neither one
has even bought me dinner yet.)