Are there any articles that discuss the transition to digital type and the rationale behind the origins of the digital font desktop licensing model (per user/computer) that we still use today? I know I've read about this topic before, but can't recall exactly where.
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I don't know any specific articles on the topic, though.
Not sure who first did user-based pricing. Emigre started in 1984, but I don't know what licensing they initially used.
Nowadays, with the screen and the document being the place the fonts get used most, fonts being embedded in documents for later printing, and output being secondary, licensing by user makes more sense—and seems to be far more prevalent.