- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:14:14 +0200
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Cc: (wrong string) åkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Also sprach Thomas Phinney:
> > > There is a lot of talk to the effect that concerns TTF/OTF support
> > > will lead to "accidental piracy" are the main motivation for
> > > resistance to TTF/OTF. I am beginning to believe that that is not
> > > really the motivation but, rather, exclusion by incumbents against
> > > potential competitors is the driver.
> >
> > I support your analysis.
>
> Well, that "analysis" is simply wrong. Not to mention offensive, as it
> requires the assumption that all the font vendors who have discussed
> the issue are lying.
I dont't think so. For one, there are two relevant markets: fonts and
browsers. You seem to only to consider the font market?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Friday, 3 July 2009 12:15:47 UTC