On 22/02/07, Gustavo Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=183
Good find, Gustavo! The free font movement (at least in my mind) has little to do with this, however. I want to see knowledge systems/resources/sites like typosium.org and scriptsource.org and typestudent.org, with the less speciality emerging type encyclopedia within the wikipedia and the design manuals on wikibooks.org. That free culture knowledge dovetails with top tier typeface design tools that are free software. The existence of these two things will change the way all type is made. With these in place, making as much original type as we want will be easy. People who want free-as-in-beer fonts can and do just hit up http://www.google.com/search?q=font+torrent whenever they want. Generally, type designers I meet do that for music, but thats okay because they're not musicians and they spent a lot of music on cassettes and don't want to pay The Man twice, or whatever excuse it is today. The ethics of this are murky but intuitively, people make the decision to share instead of sticking to agreements not to. But its kind of dull, though. Free-as-in- freedom is much more exciting. -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
