- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, John Daggett<jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > Clever folks will always figure out ways to bypass these fences, the > same is true today through torrents or by pulling font data out of Flash > files. With the older Flash font formats, the font data has been munged to the point where original high-quality desktop fonts are no longer at all reconstructible from the Flash file. Less true for the newest, though. > To be frank, I have trouble understanding what precisely your concerns > are. Are you concerned that simply allowing linkage of raw or > obfuscated fonts will lead to increased illegal use of existing fonts > not licensed for web use, to the detriment of existing sales? Or that > fonts licensed for web use can easily be used on the desktop? Or on > other sites? Or just frustration at seeing others somehow benefit from > your creations? I can't speak for Christopher or Adobe, but for font vendors in general, all of those things are concerns. Sometimes all of those things are a concern even for a single vendor. :/ Cheers, T
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