Jon Phillips wrote:
If someone drafts an email, I will join on and make sure it gets to
shuttleworth and jono...we should try to engage them constructively.
Mark is already well-aware of the various issues surrounding libre/open
fonts from previous face to face and email discussions over the
Thanks Liam
I agree I should be more specific. I was planning to look deeper into the
usability of open source, do some blogging on the subject, sit up some
discourse, for me it is important to bridge the design and the foss community…
I think the Open Font Library is a potential platform for
p.s. sorry if I ramble a bit,
I’ll have to learn to stick to one topic per e-mail instead of just
copy-pasting my mind
Op 6 mrt 2010, om 19:58 heeft Schrijver het volgende geschreven:
I think that many authors of software libraries - programmers -
understand how they can make more money with free software than with
proprietary software, which is why so much free software library code
exists. This is less true of applications programmers, and even less
true of type
For many software authors, yes, they can make more with open source, but for
MOST authors of software libraries, that is simply false. Programmers
understand that releasing their software libraries as proprietary will make
more money in the long run.
If the goal is to make money on support
On 3/6/10, fontfree...@aol.com wrote:
for MOST authors of software libraries, that is simply false. Programmers
understand that releasing their software libraries as proprietary will make
more money in the long run.
Oh come on, what sort of long run are you talking about? Everybody
knows we
