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Libre Planet 2015: Free Fonts

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.

Dave Crossland

March 21, 2015
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  3. “The sale of teaching, handholding and maintenance services could also

    employ [user freedom activists].” – rms, gnu manifesto, 1985
  4. “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