On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:22:34PM -0800, J. Greenlees wrote: > > > Ben Reser wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Austin Acton wrote: > > > >>PLEASE let's not start the should we/shouldn't we debate again. > ~snip~ > > >Didn't last long: > >http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ > > > > well, since when you buy a computer you invariably get windows [ except > the mandrake pc's from the mandrake store ], we all have the font's > available, and can import them from windows, without breaking any > license or laws. > > my personal collection of ms tt fonts is over 1500 fonts. > of course I am importing them to my mandrake boxes. > > big noise about getting something we all already have.
You're making an assumption that isn't even close to valid. Not everyone buys prebuilt boxes with OS installed. There are VERY MANY people who don't. Windows does not come with mainboards (yet), so these people do NOT have MS Fonts already. Although it is generally trivial to get them - Ben's RPM, for example. -- Murray J. Root ------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ ------------------------------------------------ Mandrake on irc.freenode.net: #mandrake & #mandrake-linux = help for newbies #mdk-cooker = Mandrake Cooker
