> DejaVu had already proven at that time fontforge was more than good enough 
> for a complex modern font.

In the sense that you can write a complex application in assembler, yes. With 
an assembler full of quirks and bugs. I have used Fontforge, I know why I ran 
from it and why people have been payed to improve it and not gotten far.

> That's what the ”professional” mindview gets you: dead projects with no live 
> community

DejaVu is clearly alive to prove your point. How about this: font design is 
different from software development and _not_ the forté of the open source 
community. The subpar open-source tooling to work on these things certainly has 
not helped. The Ubuntu font was maybe just good enough for most people.

> so everyone understands it's your business and your business alone to improve 
> the font, and third parties are not welcome.

I took on Cantarell and refreshing the technicalities of the Ubuntu font as a 
third-party and was welcomed.
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