Here’s a recent posting by David Turner on how Microsoft Typography patents pretty much cover every interesting aspect of subpixel rendering of fonts.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user/1912 -- Best font rendering suggestion https://launchpad.net/bugs/59609 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
