Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

Posted Jun 21, 2012 5:42 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization by rfontana
Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization

I didn't write they were (I hope :))

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Posted Jun 28, 2012 10:26 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] (1 responses)

Let me help you.

They mostly are unfortunately: the very approach of substituting natural human conscience with synthetic piles of buggy legal code tends to twist the very perception of basic concepts like truth and false.

And yes, we can still make such statements without fearing to catch a nice lawsuit -- freedom is still here; from Russia (actually Ukraine) with love :)

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Posted Jul 10, 2012 1:16 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (guest, #10998) [Link]

Natural human conscience is wonderful, until you start to get into questions about whether we should or shouldn't kill witches, whether it's okay to copy a new movie (what if it's 50 years old? How about 100?), when we said we were making this software free, did we really mean people could sell it (okay, but that didn't mean Microsoft? Okay, but it's only fair that we have access to their changes, isn't it? We didn't make this software so people could make baby mulchers with it!)

Making agreed upon contracts, whether for everyone or only for a small group, about what may or may not be done is the only way to make sure everyone is on the same page.