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Font Raid Spells Trouble for Publisher
rs232 writes to tell us The Register is reporting on a publishing firm that got fined for using unlicensed fonts. The firm claimed to only be actively using one font, but was found to be using approximately 11,000. In addition to their font headaches, the firm was also found to be unlicensed on 95% of their Adobe software and 75% of their Microsoft software — talk about a bad week.
Unlicensed software is always font of trouble in the business world, it seems.
The simplest solution is to use Courier or Courier New. Noone uses typewriters anymore, so it will confuse everyone and set you apart from everyone else.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Microsoft Sans Licence.
I'm sorry, but this is an unlicensed thought. Please change your mind or pay up.
A graphic designer I know (an ex-gf, actually) has not paid for either software or fonts for the last decade. She has rationalized that because once, in a staff position, she authorized the purchase of approximately 20 seats of adobe software for a graphics department, so Adobe owes her. She uses cracked copies.
I've often wondered what would happen to her and her clients if Adobe got wind of this. (Yes, it was a spectacularly bad break up.) =)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
lol... "Oh shit, it's the WinZip police! Hide!"
It's all about cost versus risk. In this case, the risk of WinZip stormtroopers crashing through the skylight and throwing flash-bangs is so low as to be laughable. Microsoft, not so much...
Th Boy Scouts of America are a paramilitary organization known for tieing their opposition up in knots ....
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The motorcyle people? I dunno, a friend of mine broke his ankle kick-starting one.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
How is it even possible to use 11,000 different type faces??
You've never been on MySpace, have you?
One overenthusiastic manager and a copy of Powerpoint.
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Nope, sorry. I don't believe it's ever right to attack another ship at sea and steal their posessions.
Now, if you were talking about copyright infringement, sorry. Personally, I refuse to use the word "piracy" when I'm talking about that, because I believe that words should mean what they mean. I'm not Humpty Dumpty.
Anyway, it's not an argument I would use when talking to the BSA, but since the BSA attacks businesses and not individuals it's a moot point. The only people I'll have to defend it against (should I choose to do so - in fact, I will elect to mock you without doing so) are a bunch of dipsticks who think they have something new to say about why I should do what my government tells me.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Or the cops. They're like rackets too: "You obey the law or we'll arrest you." Or the teachers. They're running rackets too. They're all, like, "You do your homework, or you'll get detention". Or the restaurants. They're all "Hey, you better pay for that meal, or we'll call the police and/or get you to do the washing up."
Bastards. It's exactly like the Mafia I tell you, exactly!
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
It'd probably be an interesting magazine if the editors were eating acid.
I think the tons of font faces were something some aging designer thought approximated leetspeak (it hurts my eyes to read it, its gotta be cool!)
Unfortunately, he recently committed suicide.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Its cool. Linus is welcome in my house anytime!
"If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated." - Voltaire
Eh, 6 of one, half dozen of the other; it all smells like crap.
kurzweil_freak
5th Kyu Genbukan Ninpo/KJJR student
Be the darkness that allows the light to shine.
Dear Adobe,
...and a free upgrade to CS3 when it comes out.
...and a case of beer - good beer - in bottles, not cans
I will gladly rat out the company I used to work for in exchange for one legit copy of Adobe CS2
Sincerely,
Disgruntled ex-employee