- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@RPCP.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:35:07 -0400
- To: young@cs.purdue.edu (Michal Young)
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
At 02:15 PM 8/22/96 -0500, you wrote: >You can adopt an embedding scheme that users don't object to, or you can >try to force a more secure scheme on the world --- but the secure scheme >will just be ignored, and the download scenario will prevail. I include >authors in the term "users"; a distinction made sense for publishing on >paper but is rapidly disappearing on the web. Users won't tolerate bitmap >fonts (you can make them fast enough, or good enough, but not both), they >won't tolerate schemes with indirection to a vendor font server (for both >performance and convenience reasons), they won't tolerate font substitution >(or so the experience with pdf suggests). Asimov's 2 Laws of IP Protection 1) always make it easy for users to be good/fair 2) wherein it doesn't interefere with rule 1), make it difficult for users to cheat. 2.1) difficulty is given by the following equation: cost of breaking scheme - value of cheating > cost of paying/being fair where costs and value are both in posititive terms. _______________________ Regards, Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Joseph Reagle http://rpcp.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle@mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E
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