[Openfontlibrary] Fwd: Droid fonts

[Jon Phillips]

Sounds wise...good strategy.

Jon
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 22:50 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 17/11/2007, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > Dave, it would be great to try to engage Ascender over the Open Font
> > License and also OFLB now...just to talk about and see if they will
> > relese some fonts on the site...
> 
> Ascender's reply shows that the licensing isn't up to them.
> 
> I don't think the OFLB is developed sufficiently enough to be
> attractive to foundries, and it is unstrategic to engage them too
> early.
> 
> Ascender don't appear any more interested in free software than any
> other large established foundry, other than that they don't have a
> "religious" anti-freedom attitude so they'll contract for work on
> fonts that will be free software.
> 
> Smaller, less well known proprietary foundries have more to gain from
> releasing some font software as free software, since its a stock "loss
> leader" play out of any "introduction to marketting" book for them.
> 
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