W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > www-font@w3.org > July to September 2009

RE: Fonts WG Charter feedback

From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:16:08 +0000
To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
CC: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Message-ID: <61027177C88032458A7862054B3C6258059BDD@TK5EX14MBXW652.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.com> 
Thomas Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net] wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:56 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Not sure why that would be the case.  If it enables more fonts to be licensed for web use, then why would they object?
>
>Because "more fonts" in your sense is a transient
>concern and in this case it comes at high expense
>to users.  It is the opposite of what a reputable
>standards party should do.

I don't know why you think licensing is a "transient concern."
Received on Friday, 3 July 2009 00:16:52 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:12:02 GMT