- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:09:34 -0700
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, "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>
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:53 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > Thomas Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net] wrote: > >I said that web interop using > >TTF/OTF would create a market for entrants who > >use more permissive licenses. > How about we create a market that encourages entrants, whether they want their TTFs copied or not? Please elaborate. Suppose that I am a potential market entrant in waiting. I am willing to try to make a go of things in the market if I can offer my libre fonts in TTF or some OTF extension. That way, if someone spots a copy of my font on the web they can download it and use it with all of their other apps without any hassle of conversion and so forth. I'll make my $ on bespoke font design work, on first-sales of copies, and so forth. I won't command the royalties to which restricted-license vendors are accustomed but if I'm good at this I might well get a premium on my labor hours and bandwidth. The enabling element is a Recommended requirement and IE adoption of TTF/OTF as a web font format. You want to open the door to entrants not interested in TTF/OTF compatibility. It has been repeatedly proposed to add a novel format which, at least as a side effect, supports that as well. You, so far, said "No." but then you seemed to soften that in later messages. So, where do you stand? -t
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