Quoting Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unfortunately, I'm getting similar complaints about Hspell, from people > who think that supporting their favorite software is "very important and > very urgent" but not willing to lift a finger to do this work. Counter- > intuitively, the complaint-stream seems to become stronger the better Hspell > becomes. > It seems that we, as a community, have not yet internalized the concept > of free software.
This may be true for HSpell, but I wouldn't bundle a free set of fonts in the same basket as free software. For one, the majority of the free software community is made of programmers. It's quite legitimate to demand from programmers to program. However, I personally have no expertise in fonts, other than using conversion programs and hoping they would work properly. I know there are outlines. I know there are hints that are supposed to help them look well in low resolutions. I have no idea how this works in practice, nor am I familiar with tools that do the job (in programming, hey, there's vim, gcc, make, cvs, problem solved). So, while most of us are really in need of fonts, people like me can't do much to help with them. This is not unique only to free software vs fonts. Think - there are a lot of shareware out there. Excellent programs, I have paid for many of them in my life out of respect to the author's hard work and their usefullness to me. Now, do you know a lot of shareware fonts? Ones that are actually good and follow standards? Hardly. Herouth ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
