- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:17:09 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > My point is then that, since paying to commission a font is natural, > you shouldn't get any weird 'fairness' feelings making you think that > other people should morally pay as well to receive it. Commissioning a font is the rare case where the person buying it really does "own" the font. They then naturally feel they should have a say in whether other people can make/take copies of it. Cheers, T -- "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
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