[OpenFontLibrary] Ubuntu Font Testing webapp

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:47:30PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 13 July 2010 15:34, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/13/10, vernon adams wrote:
> >> Theres a debate about on whether Ubuntu are failing the open source
> >> ethos by not releasing the font untill it's 'finished'.
> >>
> >> Interestingly there's an argument that fonts can't practically be
> >> released whilst in development (unlike other software) because it would
> >> be difficult for the author & users to track changes etc.
> >>
> >> discuss... ;)
> >
> > Whoever insists that Ubuntu is failing some sort of ethos regarding
> > fonts should grow up.
> 
> Fonts can be released whilst in development (just like other software)
> because users can track changes by having the font name follow a
> unique pattern.
> 
> Which is to say:
> 
> What is so hard about releasing FontName20100713?

People tend to pass fonts around and never update them again, so you end
up with many people using broken fonts. Knuth had to shout like this
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cm.html to get people to
update their copies of CM.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer