Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon

2010-03-06 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
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 w

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon

2010-03-06 Thread Barry Schwartz
fontfree...@aol.com skribis: > 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. The w

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon

2010-03-06 Thread Garrick Van Buren
> 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 supp

[OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon

2010-03-06 Thread Fontfreedom
>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 desig