[Biblical-languages] Microsoft Fonts

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Wed Jul 2 13:45:55 EDT 2003


Peter Kirk wrote on 07/02/2003 11:38:23 AM:

> > My understanding was that the reason Microsoft stopped providing their 

> > fonts as downloads on their site was precisely because people were 
> > abusing the privilege by redistributing them against license terms...
> 
> I see the point, but of course it didn't work, because the fonts are 
> already out there, legally and  illegally, on millions of users' 
> systems. The only effect has been the proliferation of versions, which 
> just causes confusion and a lack of trust in Microsoft products, when a 
> document that is OK on one system is unreadable on an apparently 
> identical one. 

That may be the case, but that's MS's user-support problem. I don't think 
it would be appropriate for those of us on this list to be recommending 
illegal software-redistribution.

> One very sensible way to reduce that would be if 
> Microsoft included updating its fonts in its Windows Update procedure, 
> which can of course be limited to those who have installed software 
> which gives them the right to the fonts in question.

I believe they might do that with Windows updates in the future.



- Peter


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