[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[gwern branwen]

On 10/15/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/15/06, gwern branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That is an interesting proposal, but I don't quite understand: how are
> > fonts copyrighted, and why is that a bad thing?
> >
> > On the other hand, if he's only asking 5$, we could probably raise
> > enough money to ransom it just in en.
>
> or instead figure out how to support similar efforts which would not
> hold us for ransom:
>
> http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
>
> :)

True, but time is money, as the saying goes. It may be fastest and
best to take a proprietary project free rather than attempt to
reinvent it; it worked well for the Blender project, I've heard.

--Gwern