> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of David J. Peterson
> Mark:
> <<
> Besides the technical
> issues, there are IP ones: Adobe doesn't want you to take one of
their
> fonts that you have to pay for and put it someplace that anyone
can
> download it - for free - automatically! - just by looking at your
> page.
> >>
>
> That disgusts me. If that's the *only* thing standing in the way,
> that would really make me upset. The music industry is still
> surviving even though thousands of people download it illegally--
> ditto with the motion picture industry. Some have embraced
> it, and tried to get it to work to their advantage. These are
> *fonts*. If people cared, they could get them illegally via any
> P2P service, anyway. I hope this becomes standard some time
> in my lifetime (how nice it would be not to have to create .gif's
> of every single glyph I wanted to include...).
And it's punishing everyone for the acts of others. Pushing down
fonts would be a great technology to have standardized. If someone
pushes out unlicensed and copyrighted materials then there's the
option of going after them, but don't penalize those of us who only
want to push out our own creations.