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Re: Type testing site
Hi Nick, I think this might be the one: http://www.cyreal.org/Font-Testing-Page/index.php2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I agree in spirit — but you can say that about any large, successful company and still find that for some reason they have chosen to cap the number of employees at some amount. There is always a nee…2 -
Re: eStore Solution for selling my fonts
https://www.lttrshop.com/ https://foundrycore.tipografia.com.ar/ https://www.fontdue.com/ https://www.slonline.sk/portfolio/slonline-projects/elefont/ https://www.elefont.info/4 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Joyce, I was responding directly to your statement I do think that is piracy. I might agree it doesn’t make you the ‘pirate’, but the activity is part of piracy; indeed, without such activity, piracy…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"Miles Newlyn" The best results we got out of Adobe was via the Adobe Type UI public petition that I started with Yves back at ATypI in 2014. You've described the problem quite well, and t…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I’m going to disagree with that and suggest, contra, that even if you were clearly licensed to use a given font, obtaining a pirated copy of it (i.e. a copy of the file being distributed from an unli…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"c.g." I'm not a lawyer but I know that sometimes in law an act is not theft without "actual malice". That is to say if I rob a bank for the exact amount they have charged me in …3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"Christopher Slye". You'll remember that, back in the day when you were the head of Adobe fonts, I asked for an edit to the Adobe terms of use? That edit would have expressly empowered fou…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"c.g." When I read "classic piracy" I interpret that to mean a person who sets out to steel and knows they are doing it. That's not what this is. What this is, however, is one mo…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I wrote a lot of that licensing FAQ for Adobe and played a large part in the licensing policies with the service after the Typekit acquisition. (And like John H., I was part of the working group that…2
