On 10/15/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/15/06, gwern branwen gwern0@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