- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:00 -0700
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:14 -0700, Thomas Phinney wrote: > > New entrants to the market, however, would have > > stronger incentive to enter the market with > > looser licensing. That is my suspicion: that TTF/OTF > > is being resisted in an attempt to exclude such > > new entrants. > LOL! That is the funniest thing I've heard all week. Uh, in the same spirit, I guess I should say that I therefore feel bad for your humor deprived lifestyle. > Speaking as somebody who is still something of an "industry insider" > but no longer has any financial interest in the health of type > vendors, I can assure you that sure as heck isn't a motive. In fact, I > doubt the idea even entered the head of a single person . > Putting it another way: *why* would looser licensing create more > market entrants? I did not say looser licensing would create more market entrants. I said that web interop using TTF/OTF would create a market for entrants who use more permissive licenses. -t
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