- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:37:51 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Fonts, on the other hand, cost $0 to reproduce. Any price you charge > will recoup the price of a copy. (The fixed costs of creating the > font are a different matter, but they have nothing to do with > reproduction of the font file.) .... > Anytime someone big gives up a niche, there are ten > others who will gleefully fill it in now that there's no competition. Only if they see a way to (at least) recoup the cost of 'the fixed costs of creating the font', plus ongoing support, etc. JH
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