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  1. My contribution by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Funny · on Big Rigs Makes Play For Worst Game Of All Time

    I suppose I should be flattered in a way that the worst game uses a font I made when I was 16 (scroll down to "Prefix") for its badly made you're winner screen...

  2. My contribution by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Funny · on Big Rigs Makes Play For Worst Game Of All Time

    I suppose I should be flattered in a way that the worst game uses a font I made when I was 16 (scroll down to "Prefix") for its badly made you're winner screen...

  3. Re:Sorry for being dumb by Crispy+Critters · · Score: 1 · on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family
    I don't think fonts are often expensive just because it took a long time to create all the letters. It's probably more to it than that.
    Good fonts are difficult to make. Making something for a title is easy, but it is a lot of difficult work to create a font in which large blocks of text are easy to read and which does this at many different sizes.

    I have Microsoft's verdana font on my linux boxes, because it is an exceptionally good, easy-to-read font. I hope these new fonts are as good, so all I will need are Vera fonts and everything from Divide by Zero.

  4. Re:Pah, forget these ''math'' fonts... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds

    Ouch. Out of curiosity I tries www.tom7.com, and my old, slow, computer with only 64megs nearly puked. Good thing I'm on dial-in so I could stop it quickly.

  5. Re:Pah, forget these ''math'' fonts... by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 1 · on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds

    Free plug from a fan: If you're looking for cool, free fonts for web page graphics, or a game, definately check out Tom7's page. The fonts look good, are visually interesting, and while not appropriate for, say, your resume, are great display fonts for many purposes.

  6. Pah, forget these ''math'' fonts... by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds

    If you want your mathematical publications to look really good, just use my fonts.

    http://fonts.tom7.com/

    Trust me. Instant PhD.

  7. Yikes, well, here we go... by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Font Company Wielding DMCA Against Bit-Flipping
    Well, I didn't really want this to get onto slashdot unless they threatened me any more, but, I guess I can't control the internet. ;)

    Anyway, in case you're curious, I've been pushing their buttons a little bit, with the help of Dave Touretzky , and my current guess is that they have given up on me. (I haven't heard back since the letter I sent them that's on that page.) But I will be happy to go to court over this retarded case, and the EFF has informally offered to help if I do. ( Donate! )

    In case you're interested, my fonts, which I've been making since 1993 (and which are free for you to use for practically anything) are at fonts.tom7.com .

  8. Re:Theft vs. Copying by Tom7 · · Score: 2 · on Napster Traffic Drops

    Every author, musician, software developer...? No, certainly not every one. There are lots of people who give away their work for free, and lots who permit you to copy it. I'm serious, some people do not think the way you do. Linux and a lot of the software that goes with permits copying explicitly. I'd like to think of myself as a graphic designer and musician, and my fonts and music are free, and I permit copying. I'm sure we can find significant examples for your other categories. This is not an obvious point.

    As for the "copying is moral" argument, I don't expect to win over many people with just slashdot posts. Morals are more complicated than that. However, I believe the distinction between theft and copying is real, and that you are just plain wrong to claim they are the same. Theft deprives someone of property directly. Copying does not (though it may, indirectly). There's plenty of reasonable arguments to be made about copying being bad, but none of them come down to analogies about stealing cars.