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Re: Font compression and supporting commercial software



> From: Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>
> > What I was talking about is that it might be a good move to release
> > Xfree86-3.3 fonts compressed rather than gziped into _contrib_.
> 
> OK, now your intent is more clear.
> 
> Well, I guess it's OK to do that.  But before you go to the trouble of
> producing a converter package, you might try to find out how many
> people need it. I suspect that many of those who have commercial X
> servers got fonts with them, and might not be installing our fonts.
> Also, is simply writing down a procedure for these users to go through
> sufficient?

Yes, I agree. But where could we put these README.xfonts (or whatever
better name could be)? On Debian ftp site? Into /usr/doc/*/ of every
font package? This is too much trouble. Just post to the debian-user?


Alex Y.
> 
> Regarding whether I want to make a change that will enrich commercial
> software manufacturers who will then sell upgrades to match that change,
> I don't mind. I didn't make the change deliberately to do that, and there
> is a free software alternative available. It is also possible for these
> people to unocompress fonts after extracting our packages. The very best VGA
> card that I can find has 4MB RAM and accellerated Open GL, and sells for $250.
> As far as I can tell, that one is supported by free software. I don't see that
> people are tied to commercial software by their VGA card.


P.S.
This is off-topic. I myself use 5-year-old 486 with *on-board* NCR video
card. Far from being the best. It does not have accelerated features and
my CPU is not the fastest so I start X only when necessary. My card is
supported by Xfree86 but... when I leave the X to the text console
(either by switching to it or just after shutting down the server) my
text fonts are left completely scrambled. I have to run svgatextmode to
load the font. And in addition to the fact that it is not very convenient,
the font I load (the best I found) looks much worse than the one I had
after restarting the computer. I filed bug report to XFree86 long time
ago but (in addition to automatic "thank-you") got no reply,
justifying the "free==unsupported" statement.

Don't you think it is the reason to go for commercial X server?




> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 	Bruce
> -- 
> Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it?
> Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html
> Bruce Perens K6BP   bruce@pixar.com   510-215-3502
> 


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