- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:36:17 +0000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>, Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
If I have to deal with "licensing crap" in order to be able to use (say) Zapfino on the web, then so be it : far far better to deal with "licensing crap" in order to be able to use a font crafted by a master than to be able to use a zillion fonts that have either been stolen, plagiarised or created by well-meaning but unskilled amateurs. Philip TAYLOR -------- Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > However, even if you dispute this latter claim, we must still keep in > mind that dealing with licensing crap is something which explicitly > makes us *less* happy. It gets in our way without improving our > designs. Thus, the decrease in our happiness due to dealing with > licensing crap must be considered together with the increase in our > happiness from using commercial fonts in any discussion. This sidetrack > started out as a reminder to keep this simple fact in mind. > > ~TJ
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