Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Austin Acton
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:45, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Anyone have a mirror? the site is dead. Why the hell would you want it? Ben's script is Mandrake-specific and available from PLF. Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:36:57AM -0500, Austin Acton wrote: Why the hell would you want it? Ben's script is Mandrake-specific and available from PLF. Actually it isn't in PLF. At least not to my knowledge and it's not in the 9.0 tree on club-internet.fr's mirror. Besides my site as far as I

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 04:36 pm, Austin Acton wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:45, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Anyone have a mirror? the site is dead. Why the hell would you want it? To see if Microsoft lets it pass. If it remains unmolested for, say, a year, then that's a precedent. If

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Austin Acton
You're right. My bad. Austin On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 04:30, Ben Reser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:36:57AM -0500, Austin Acton wrote: Why the hell would you want it? Ben's script is Mandrake-specific and available from PLF. Actually it isn't in PLF. At least not to my knowledge and

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Damian Gatabria
Didn't last long: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ There's a new mirror to those, just check the link again. Oh, and i've made them available thru eDonkey network. If you care to get them, here are the links: ed2k://|file|msfonts.spec|3053|0d24fd8b645f38438d79cb13f966a2fa|/

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread J. Greenlees
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 [

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread Ben Reser
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. I just thought this was interesting. Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread Lea Gris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Greenlees a écrit: | | | 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: |

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread Murray J. Root
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/

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Murray J. Root wrote: 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:

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:45:34PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Didn't last long: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ Anyone have a mirror? the site is dead. His RPMS are a violation of the license agreement that Microsoft released them under. So I seriously doubt anybody

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread pablito
what fonts do you want? like tahoma, ariel, that sort of thing? Quoting Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:45:34PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Didn't last long: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ Anyone have a mirror? the site is dead. His RPMS

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:06 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:03 pm, Austin Acton wrote: Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better understand the situation. Some guy has gone and

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread mika . laitio
] 11.12.2002 19:06 Please respond to cooker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag Austin Acton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: PLEASE let's not start the should we/shouldn't we debate again. I just thought

[Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Austin Acton
PLEASE let's not start the should we/shouldn't we debate again. I just thought this was interesting. Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better understand the situation. Some guy has gone and made a REAL rpm of all

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Han Boetes
Austin Acton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: PLEASE let's not start the should we/shouldn't we debate again. I just thought this was interesting. Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better understand the situation.

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:03 pm, Austin Acton wrote: Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better understand the situation. Some guy has gone and made a REAL rpm of all the MS fonts, including Tahoma and

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:20:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed MS fonts by using Ben's bootstrap RPM. For some reason I could not get these fonts to appear in the font selection of gnome terminal. (This is just a one example) Does anybody have an idea what is getting

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:06:45PM +0059, Han Boetes wrote: Hmmm I tried Bens rpm, which didn't work somehow. Then I remembered this project: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Which had a spec-file which looked surprisingly familiar with the slight difference that it worked fine. So

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Texstar
I haven't tried it. His site is SERIOUSLY freshmeated. hehe I'm sure Ben's is better because it's Mandrake specific, but it will be very interesting to see if this new rpm lasts. Maybe we will gain some insight on MS's true feelings on the subject. All I have to say is that guy is

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
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. I just thought this was interesting. Since there was some worry going on about the legalities and ethics of Ben's MS font bootstrap RPM, here is a way to better

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
All I have to say is that guy is asking for it... What is the worse that can happen? a cease and desist? ;oP Damian