2008/11/6 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As far as I can make out Ascender Corp. have absolutely no commitment to
Free/Libré fonts
Here is my point:
They made a free software font and their cash flow was positive.
I did not say they were committed to free software. Obviously they are
2008/11/6 Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:09 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote:
[...]
I'm not criticizing Ascender Corp. who do have particular expertise in
making highly legible screen fonts ~ but, for the money they spent,
could Red Hat not hire any one in the
2008/11/6 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Le Jeu 6 novembre 2008 05:09, Christopher Fynn a écrit :
You don't have to single out Red Hat, Google made pretty much the same
choice with Droid (and didn't bother licensing it clearly at the same
time).
Red Hat's Liberation font licensing isn't
Dave Crossland wrote:
Secondly, there is the specific case of the cashflow being positive.
First there are the one-off cases: Ascender seems to have made money
doing it recently for Google and Red Hat, and Evertype also did a paid
free software font job recently.
Exactly - when Red Hat and
