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Arg this article is wrong.

TrueType was FREELY licensed. You could use TrueType fonts in Windows 3.1. (I know, I was there.)

What Apple didn't license was their Advanced Type Tech (Quickdraw GX?) which allowed for further refinements to glyph positioning.

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Thank you for this clarification, I was scratching my head at this, wondering if I had misremembered my entire childhood desktop publishing experience. IIRC the relative openness of TrueType encouraged/forced Adobe to open up their previously proprietary Type 1 fonts.

As a postscript (see what I did there?), Apple did eventually donate a bunch of QuickDraw GX tech/innovations to OpenType.

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