I got an email from Monotype informing affiliates that they're sunsetting their non-MyFonts sites. Has this been announced elsewhere? Is it just those three sites?
We’ve made the decision to discontinue several of our legacy sites which includes Linotype.com, Fontshop.com, and Fonts.com throughout the next year.
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In the short term it is work and pain to merge them, what with the need to migrate order histories. But in the long term the efficiency gains will be huge.
I hope the previous foundry legacies are preserved and celebrated as much as possible, but eventually merging them into the behemoth is part of what one expects from the acquisition process. Ah well!
I am also speculating against different Eula terms
My experience is that since everyone who's anyone reads and authors rich text, they all think they know something about type. Oh well
They slowly dismantled all the teams, split us up in different reporting structures so there was no Linotype core. The management team still met but none of us really reported to the managing director.
When we were acquired in 2006 we were sold many dreams, and now even the office in Bad Homburg is gone.