Posted on 09/12/2004 1:45:38 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
E-mail Number Three (of which I have only thetiniest bit of understanding, but which I suspect is even more bad news for Dan and the CBS crowd):
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Hi, Hugh.
My name is Paul Snively. I'm a software engineer and former Apple Computer employee. Specifically, I was employed by Apple Computer from 1989-1991, the years in which Apple invented TrueType font technology, shipped the first implementation of TrueType in Macintosh System Software 7.0, and licensed the TrueType technology to Microsoft. My personal involvement with TrueType, however, was limited to participating in a code review of the TrueType renderer for System 7.0.
Corky Cartwright, whom I've incidentally known of for a minimum of three years due to his involvement with the Scheme programming language and specifically the , is, of course, exactly correct in his observations regarding proportional font spacing and the likelihood of its applicability even via the IBM Composer circa 1973. The animated GIF of the Microsoft Word document overlaying the CBS-provided PDF is already quite convincing. However, it gets worse for CBS.
Microsoft uses TrueType font technology under license from Apple Computer. Apple Computer holds three patents related to TrueType: , , and , as described at . The salient fact is that _at least one of these patents covers technology that can affect the font's metrics_, as described at , which I quote in part here:
"Some small aspects of the TrueType specification being covered by several patents owned by Apple Computer, it is generally not possible to render TrueType glyphs exactly as they should without infringing on Apple's IP rights (without a license).
This explains that we've taken some special measures to deal with this problem:
First of all, a default build of the FreeType 2 sources will not use any of the patented techniques to render TrueType glyphs. You'll thus be safe to use it freely in all kinds of projects.
Unfortunately, this freedom comes at the price of sometimes less-than-ideal glyph quality, depending on the font design, and most surely different glyph metrics for a given font."
Thus, the Microsoft Word document/CBS PDF overlay exhibiting completely accurate character overlay strongly suggests that, at the very least,
the origin of the PDF document was a piece of word-processing software using an Apple-licensed TrueType implementation, a font technology, glyph-hinting process, patent, and license that didn't exist until 1989.
Please feel free to quote me on the air and/or on your web site. Please also note that this e-mail is digitally signed using GNU Privacy Guard, and my public key can be found on and other OpenPGP-compatible public keyservers around the Internet, with key ID 31C14015, fingerprint BD49 DB9E B110 9BA6 7B7D 6D19 6E8B 75C3 31C1 4015.
Best regards, Paul Snively
Hugh's other 2 e-mails are also damning to Rather and CBS.
Dan, I think it's over for you.
Deep doodoo for the Rat Rather.
(Loose translation----we don't care if the documents are forged, we like the story and are going to keep runing with it until we have no credibility in any forum and we have destroyed the name of our network)
And .... didn't Dan say that we should be looking beyond the question of validity of the documents? We should be looking at the content!! Yeesh!!!!!
Dan Rather, Americas' village idiot.
Not with Dan. He is continuing his stonewall with very limited hangout. He probably sees it as a "nothing to lose" proposition: Admit he foisted a fraud upon the American people or deny, deny, deny on the chance, however slim, that the issue may blow over.
"...going to keep runing with it until we have no credibility in any forum and we have destroyed the name of our network..."
It's time to ask CBS this: "What is Rather holding over the heads of some higher ups that they are willing to destroy CBS rather than risking their own careers. It is obvious now that Rather is being protected to the detriment of the shareholders of CBS." There is the criminality of investor fraud now underway at the Black Eye Network.
LOL! Yea, forget the problems of the authenticity of these documents, let's have him answer the IMPORTANT questions raised in them!
(is he on drugs?)
So he transformed the Underwood at Killians office temporarily on 4th May 1972 into an IBM PC with laser printer output.
I bet he didn't think he would cause all these problems for the dims.
Actually, it is a wait-and-see.
If the Rather controversy brings viewers (which CBS has been losing in droves), and that improves the Viacom bottom line, they will let Rather continue. When the Rather controversy shows signs of damaging the Viacom bottom line, Rather will be retired.
To quote Judge Judy, "Follow the money."
Dan and CBS will stonewall, because it is their least-bad option.
I wonder if it will finally come to this:
Judge's instructions to the jury:
"Ladies and gentlemen, please remember that even if the defendant has been proven to have been lying, it is just as important to consider the content of his lies as it is to consider the weight of the truth."
LOL
Typeface BUMPmark.
Quite right - thus far I see no impact on the share price, will be interesting to see what the next week produces.
Remember folks, CBS News is a business, the P&L carries the most weight.
"Actually, it is a wait-and-see."
I don't believe in wait -and-see. I believe in forcing the issue to the front so decisions to do what is right are made.
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