hmm, on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:17:04PM +0900, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel said that > instead of participating in the recent controversy about the msttcorefonts, I > decided to use ten minutes of my time to whip up a port of the Fedora > Liberation Fonts, which are GPL licensed replacements for Times New Roman, > Courier New and Arial.
if you used a couple of those minutes to look around, you would have noticed that there already is a port.. btw. with the intrusive changes to the font configuration they would be overriden with the vera variants anyway.. > I was thinking we could potential remove Times New Roman, Courier New and > Arial > from the msttcorefonts package and make msttcorefonts depend on this instead > and add some fonts.conf magic to make it all work transarently ? why would you that? if you dont like msttcorefonts, just dont install them. they are perfectly free to use for anyone. that is something a lot of professional fonts cannot claim. most of the open source fonts are plain ugly anyway (with some notable exceptions of course). why? because making a good font is damn hard work. some may prefer to look at ugly fonts all day long just so they get the fuzzy warm OSI approved license feeling, but some prefer to use fonts created by talented artists and qualified usability professionals. you want nice fonts for free? go search smashing magazine. they regularly post about free fonts by designers who want to become better known and once in a while give away some of their fonts. -f -- my favorite mythical creature? the honest politician.
