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“Distributed version control is a new and strange world… but we’re excited to be here. Finally.” — Mozilla shifts from CVS to Mercurial… for now. preed makes it very clear that they’re keeping their options open for the other main contender, Bazaar.
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“Pimlico is a suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices.” — OpenedHand forge a suite from their collection of sweet mobile PIM apps. One path to emancipation from Evolution?
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Great summary from Andrew Savikas, via Nat. A few gems: Alfresco as wiki backend, Drupal catch the “Creating Passionate Users” bug, cool video sites.
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It’s bizaare that my favourite Microsoft products are typefaces and keyboards. Now you can get your hands on some of Vista’s great fonts, without suffering Vista itself… If the viewer is redistributable, this method could deliver the next msttcorefonts.
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“On Tuesday afternoon, Travis Griggs will be talking about Cincom Smalltalk and Cairo – integrating the two will bring a lot of nice capabilities to Cincom Smalltalk.” — Cairo in Smalltalk land! Beaujolais!
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I doubt the license of the Vista font pack is anywhere near the Free Software Definition. No matter how you manage to get it. No real redistribution or modification.
Why dream of a next msttcorefonts when we already have open fonts?
See http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ and http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts for growing catalogs of quality open fonts.
You’ve missed the point.
msttcorefonts downloads redistributable fonts, should you want to use them. The original author has found a way to get Vista fonts without installing Vista, so if the Power Point Viewer is redistributable, it can be added to msttcorefonts.
This has nothing to do with the Free Software Definition, just freely redistributable material.
I use and support Free typefaces too.
Yes, I certainly agree with what you have said.
There’s a quite a difference between finding a clever way of using the redistributability loophole, extracting the content from what is probably intended as a platform-specific format to get the fonts on another system and creating a new set of cross-distro cross-platform freely redistributable and modifiable open fonts.
I wasn’t mixing one with the other.
It’s worth pointing out that the redistributability has rather hefty limitations too:
Section 3) b) on the MS Vista EULA
(http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms) says:
“b. Font Components. While the software is running, you may use its fonts to display and print content. You may only
· embed fonts in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions in the fonts; and
· temporarily download them to a printer or other output device to print content.”
IHMO we can do better that going through these hoops to get good fonts. Especially when the upstream website might pull them away like it has happened with the MS “core fonts”.
Using and supporting free and open typefaces should get users of the free desktop beyond that situation.
Quite a few web designers would like a change from the limitations of the ms core fonts…