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His latest project is https://radicalpie.com/ A Professional Equation Editor for Windows 10/11 for 60$ that uses Slug for rendering. Presumably he‘s using it to write his great FGED books.
25 years ago I would have loved that. But I don't actually know many people still doing any of this sort of work on Windows. (I get it. It's an awesome replacement for MathType. It uses OLE so that it embeds in Microsoft Word nicely. Still...)
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I took care of the whole thing myself without lawyers, so I ended up paying something like $950 in various filing fees.
How did you get that diploma/plaque, is that something every patent author will have?
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I took care of the whole thing myself without lawyers, so I ended up paying something like $950 in various filing fees.
How did you get that diploma/plaque, is that something every patent author will have?
Also, Microsoft's Loop-Blinn patent for cubic curves will expire on March 25. These might change the landscape of text rendering...
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> I was granted a patent for the Slug algorithm in 2019, and I legally have exclusive rights to it until the year 2038. But I think that’s too long. The patent has already served its purpose well, and I believe that holding on to it any longer benefits nobody. Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.
Yes, now that SDF font rendering is the industry's preference, he drops the software patent. That is, he is dropping the patent because it isn't a commercially viable piece of software, not because he is ethically opposed to it. Great virtue signaling though.
At the time they were going with, approximating the curves out of triangles. I don't know if they're still doing that though.