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Microsoft Typography Withdraws Free Web Fonts
jonadab writes: "Microsoft Typography has for years provided a set of very nice
True-Type fonts for free-as-in-without-monetary-cost, including
the excellent Andale Mono (the only scalable fixed-width font
I really like). They are gone. Here
is the Microsoft page where they formerly were, which now tersely
explains that they're not available any longer. There is an
article
about this on extremetech. According to the article, Microsoft
says the withdrawal of the fonts at about the same time as the
LinuxWorld is coincidence. The article also references a Debian
package that has been removed from the distro because of this.
If I understand my rumours correctly, it was a package that
downloaded the fonts from MS, displayed their EULA, and allowed
the user to extract and install the fonts. It was possible to
do the same thing using other distros.
Guess it's time for the OSS people to make some decent-looking
scalable both-screen-and-printer fonts (preferably TrueType).
At minimum, we need nice-looking serif proportional (to replace
Verdana), a sans proportional (to replace Georgia), and a
mostly-sans fixed (to replace Andale Mono), all with good
language support.
This should have been done a long time ago, since the MS fonts
were, albeit $0, not licensed in an open fashion. We always
knew we were relying on MS Typography's generosity, and that
these could disappear at any time. But now the need is more
urgent."
GD FP biasodifjaopj!
you fucking assholes really know how to screw things up for everyone else, you know that? because you fucktards can't even be self-reliant and make your own damn fonts, now no one else can use them.
fuck you all.
and quit calling microsoft M$ or whatever. its fucking lame and it doens't make you cool or "l337".
assholes. all you bastards even have the cheek after fucking things up for everyone else, to post this on slashdot, home of unwashed hippies, and bitch about microsoft doing anything to take a potshot at OSS.
now don't even get me started on the lame jokes about bill gates. you all are just jealous cos you'll all never be like him, which you all secretly want to be.
did i get my message across clear? if not i'll repeat myself: FUCK ALL LINUX HIPPIES!! YOU'RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF FUCKING LOSERS AND ASSHATS!!!