[Foundation-l] Fonts

[Yann Forget]

Le Thursday 21 July 2005 01:15, Dori a écrit :
> On 7/20/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > On previous wikimeets I attended we did discuss the need for a
> > collection of fonts that would include as many fonts as we can get for
> > our public. It would help a lot if we could have one resource that is
> > free for use and that does include all the needed fonts. If it requires
> > a reasonable amount of money to buy a missing font to make it Free, I
> > think it is worthy of consideration. I am also sure that when we
> > acknowledge the people who make fonts available for this purpose we will
> > be able to get many resources for free.
>
> Good fonts require tons of time from professional artists. I don't
> think the foundation could buy them for all languages we support
> unless we somehow come across a few million dollars. We'd probably
> have better luck convincing Microsoft to open source theirs.

You are joking, I hope ?
I doubt very much Microsoft is going to release anything as Open source any 
time soon. It is not in their interest.

But I am pretty sure funding could be found to buy IP rights.
Think about Blender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

> Dori

Regards,
Yann
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