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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 11 20:00:28 +0000 2008 ------- Is anyone on the OO team a lawyer or have professional legal background? I have contacted the kind people at EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) ( http://www.eff.org ), who do have lawyers on hand specifically to address these kinds of issues. I don't know if they have any better suggestions, but if the only reason for not implementing this CRITICAL feature is because of fear of legal ramifications, then it seems consulting lawyers who specialize in electronic intellectual property laws/rights, would be the best source to consult before completely giving up on some variant of an "embedded fonts" capability (such as the aforementioned partial functionality of somehow only allowing "open" fonts to be embedded). Please reconsider opening this feature for now, for consideration. I don't know if the EFF folks will take this on, or even be able to suggest any more than you have from the "Chilling Effect" of the "Adobe vs. ITC" and other cases. But it is certainly worth investigating before completely giving up on so critical a feature. This lacking component is a show-stopper feature for our magazine at the very least. And I can only imagine how many others are stuck, unable to fully utilize OO for similar reasons, and forced to either use MS/Adobe commercial products, or completely stuck because there is no alternative on their operating system (many of us use only Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.), and have no alternative, and are being seriously impacted in trying to collaborate in the final stages of the zine. Thank you all for you great work and efforts, and please do not give up on this feature just yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
