Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Mark D Lew wrote:
Whether Microsoft allows use of the fonts outside of their software
packages that include them, I don't know, but I do know that MS has
the right to license them however they choose.
The fonts are presumably included in the license for certain Microsoft
products, including Windows Vista, and Microsoft 2007 and 2008. If you
don't have Vista, you can purchase a license to use each font for $35.00
US each, or for the entire package, $299.00 US, from the Ascender
Corporation (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_Corporation>).
That agreement between Microsoft and Ascender may be why the
license with Microsoft Office is so restrictive.
Regarding the "honesty" issue -- one is forced to agree to
the terms without being able to negotiate those terms, and
if one is forced by modern business practices to use
Microsoft Office for compatibility reasons with clients,
then one is forced to accept the licensing terms whether one
wants to or not. I'm not so sure it's an "honesty" thing if
one chooses to use the fonts one is forced to accept in
whatever way one sees fit.
Who could reasonably expect an end user, when looking at a
long line of fonts in Finale or any other non-Office
application, to know which fonts out of the potentially
thousands, were licensed only to be used for Office
applications?
If that's what Microsoft expects of its users, then it had
better come up with a means by which those fonts licensed to
be used only in Office applications appear *only* in the
font list of the applications they're licensed to be used
with and to be omitted from the font lists in all other
applications.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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