- From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:12:16 -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? With the combination of requiring TTF/OTF and requiring some novel format. Now, there are additional constraints. If the process is to be legitimate, in my view, the novel format must contribute some significant value to web standards above and beyond mere novelty. Hence, my general, simple, extensible wrapper proposal which I would have thought, before the latest round of "tensions", you folks at MSFT might have embraced saying "Now, there's a clever idea we can get behind!" Regards, -t
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