Libre Planet 2015: Free Fonts

Summary: Fonts are not software, but they ought to be libre for the same reasons as software and encyclopedias. I've spent the last ten years as a software user freedom activist, and at the FSF Libre Planet 2015 conference I presented my work to free fonts: how I got started, where I'm going, and some of the hundreds of free fonts I've commissioned for writing systems around the world along the way. Finally I revealed my take on the most commonly asked question I'm asked about the software user freedom movement: how to earn money developing products while respecting users' freedoms and giving the products away free of charge.

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1. Free Fonts!!!
2. Mine is a world that begins with school
3. SUBURBIA
4. HIGHSCHOOL JUNIOR YEAR 1996
5. HACKERS
6. HIGHSCHOOL SENIOR YEAR 1998
7. 56k MODEM
9. ESR
10. DILBERT
11. CRIME
12. CONTEMPORARY ART
13. ART + COMPUTERS = DESIGN
14. ILLUSTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY TYPOGRAPHY
15. ENTERTAIN PERSUADE INFORM
16. FRESHMAN
17. Mac OS X
18. ADOBE MULTIPLE MASTERS
19. LIBRE GRAPHICS
20. GIMP INKSCAPE SCRIBUS
21. RMS COMES TO CAMPUS
22. COPYRIGHT VS coMmunity
23. ARTISTIC OPINION FUNCTIONAL
24. I HATE IT I HATE YOU IT IS BROKEN
25. “IT IS BROKEN” IN 2 WAYS
26. 1. Buggy!
27. @FSF
29. 2. Incomplete
30. La liberte
31. La liberté
32. I FREE FONTS
33. TOOLS KNOWLEDGE FINANCE
34. FONTFORGE
35. MA TYPEFACE DESIGN UNIVERSARY OF READING
36. $
37. “The sale of teaching, handholding and maintenance services could also employ [user freedom activists].” – rms, gnu manifesto, 1985
38. Dissertation
40. Thanks to Karl Berry & TUG!
41. Mine is a world that begins with school
42. JOHN TAYLOR GATTO openconspiracy.org
43. What do children at the most elite private boarding schools learn, that you didn't?
44. HOW TO ALIGN INSTITUTIONAL INTERESTS WITH YOUR INTERESTS
45. TAX EVASION
46. MILITARY
47. GOVERNMENT
48. COURTS
49. POLICE
50. CHURCH
51. MEDICINE
52. SCIENCE
53. MEDIA
54. SCHOOLS
55. Corporations
56. INVESTORS
57. MASS MARKETS
58. Corporations
59. Dissertation
60. Corporations
61. Corporations
62. Corporations
63. Corporations
64. Corporations
65. How did I do it?
66. Networking on the Network vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Research/Advice/network.html
67. MASS MARKETS
68. MASS MARKETS
69. $100 Computers
70. OLPC XO
71. Firefox OS
72. ANDROID ONE
73. 1. Buggy!
74. Microsoft Nirmala in windows 8
75. Pathum Egodawatta blog.mooniak.com
76. 2. Incomplete
77. Microsoft Nirmala in windows 8 Hashim Padiyath Mohemmadali typophile.com/node/105005
78. for writing systems around the world दुनिनिया भर के िसिस्टम िलिखनिे के िलिए
80. Sinhala Newspaper, 1984
81. TOOLS KNOWLEDGE FINANCE
82. TOOLS
83. GL YPHR
84. METAPOLATOR
85. MAKE USER FREEDOM TANGIBLE
86. KNOWLEDGE
89. FINANCE
90. “Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group would contract with programming companies to write programs that the group's members would like to use.” – rms, gnu manifesto, 1985
91. MASS MARKETS
92. KICKSTARTER
93. FUND I/O
94. SNOWDRIFT
95. GRATIPAY
96. patreon
97. 500 TRUE FANS × $10/MONTH
98. User Freedom as a Lifestyle
99. User Freedom as a Lifestyle Business
100. A MANUAL FOR RMS' LIFESTYLE
101. FINANCE DOES NOT MEAN PROFIT
102. WE OUGHT TO USE MONEY TO ADVANCE OUR CAUSE
103. TO MAKE USER FREEDOM FULL TIME
104. Thank you very much!