Re: Web font linking progress summary from Thomas Lord on 2009-07-09 (www-font@w3.org from July to September 2009)

From: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:42:29 -0700
To: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1247161349.6773.3.camel@dell-desktop.example.com>

Just to highlight:

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:26 +0100, Ben Weiner wrote:
> I think we are all slowly coming to see that the question of people 
> downloading the font files to the desktop and disregarding any
> licensing 
> terms is a total red herring. What we want is to express rights, 
> promoting the people who did the original work and fostering a 
> co-operative online culture, rather than wasting energy trying to
> stop 
> people being naughty.


Nicely said and an important point.

-t

Received on Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:43:11 UTC