Re: lug-bg: Pomosht za free fonts ot Bitstream

[donangel@xxxxxxxxxxx (Doncho Angelov)]

Àìè êàê äà òè êàæà...
Àç èçöÿëî ïîäêðåïÿì òîâà, êîåòî Àëåêñàíäúð êàçâà - è âå÷å äàäîõ ñâîÿ 
(íàäÿâàì ñå - ïîëîæèòåëåí) ïðèíîñ.

Íå å âúïðîñà äàëè ñà 1, 10 èëè 100. Âàæåí å ñàìèÿò àêò, â êîéòî åäíà 
êîìåðñèàëíà îðãàíèçàöèÿ äàðÿâà ñâîÿò òðóä â ïîëçà íà Ñâîáîäíèÿò Ñîôòóåð.

À è áåç ñúìíåíèå êðàñîòàòà íà êîéòî è äà å îò òåçè êîìåðñèàëíè øðèôòîâå 
íå ìîæå äà ñå ñðàâíè ñ áåçïëàòíèòå âàðèàíòè (à è íå òîëêîâà áåçïëàòíè 
ïîíÿêîãà) íà øðèôòîâåòå, êîèòî ñâîáîäíî ìîæåì äà íàòî÷èì îò íåò-à.

Áúäè çäðàâ,
Ä.

Peter An. Zyumbilev wrote:

>Zdraveite,
>s risk da blesna sas svoiata nekompetetnost kkavo znachenie imat tia 10
>shrifta ?
>Ima site-ove s primerno 2000 bezplatni TTF fonta..za kakav diavol triabva da
>se balgodari  za tia celi 10 shrifta ?
>Kogato moga da otida savsme legalno da si savlia 1000 takiva ??????????????
>
>Peter Zyumbilev
>Web Developer & Administrator
>BIVOL BULGARIA
>email: bivol@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bivol@xxxxxxxxx>
>web: http://www.bivol.net <http://www.bivol.net>
>tel.: +359 88 966940
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-lug-bg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-lug-bg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alexander Shopov
>Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:02 PM
>To: lug-bg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: lug-bg: Pomosht za free fonts ot Bitstream
>
>
>Zdraveite,
>Ako ne ste nauchili Bitstream shte predostaviat 10
>visoko
>kachestveni shrifta s free licenz na Gnome foundation
>(a sledovatelno i na vsichki free proekti - KDE, i
>vsichki drugi)
>Pres releasa e tuk:
>http://www.gnome.org/pr-bitstreamfonts.html
>Saobshtenieto e tuk:
>http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=877&mode=thread&order=0&thold=1
>Po-dolu prikachvam moia dialog s predstavitelia na
>kompaniata Bob Thomas - Director of Product Management
>Vseki koito iska da vzeme i da napishe pismo do nego,
>v koeto:
>1. Da blagodari na kompaniata za vse oshte ochakvania
>podarak.
>2. Da kazhe kolko e veliko tova i kak se nadiava
>shriftovete da sadarzhat i kirilica i kak tova shte
>pomoge na free softuera i osobeno mnogo shte vdigne
>ocenkata za Bitstream va kirilskia pazar. Strashna
>reklama i t.n.
>
>**DA NIAMA PROSTOTII OT VIDA:**!!!!
>1. Shto gi daate na Gnome, a ne na KDE, ili neshto
>drugo - dadat li gi na Gnome foundation davat gi na
>vsichki;
>2. Ako ne napraite kirilica niama da va obicham
>poveche
>taka ili inache podarakat e goliam dori i da ne
>sadarzha kirilica
>3. Ma da ne ni dadete naj-smotanite shriftove -
>pone previewto koeto vidiah sa si super shriftovete
>4. Shto samo 10. Ako imame dobri zamestiteli na Arial
>Times New Roman i Courier New - napravo letim za
>Lunata.
>
>Badete uchtivi, dobrozhelatelni i ne postaviaite
>ultimatumi - prosto pokazhete kolko mnogo se nuzhdaem
>ot hubavi free shriftove i kolko shte sme im
>zadalzheni ako gi napraviat.
>I ne si mislete che da praish shriftove e lesno - NE
>E!
>al_shopov
>
>Dear Alexander,
>
>Thank you for your kind words. We think this will give
>all users and
>developers in the Linux community a font solution
>right out of the box. I
>hope you soon get a chance to use our Bitstream Vera
>font family ! Stay
>tuned to GNOME to see which version our fonts will be
>released in. I
>think they will be in GNOME v2.3.
>
>We at Bitstream are trying to work with the GNOME
>Foundation to provide
>a small set of WGL4 fonts. WGL4 fonts include Cyrillic
>characters.
>However, this is all in early development right now,
>and nothing has been
>set in stone. So it would be wrong for me to say, Yes,
>we plan to
>provide WGL4 character set support, including Cyrillic
>support.
>
>Please stay tuned for further developments. Our goal
>is to help GNOME
>and the open source community as much as possible.
>
>Kind regards,
>-Bob Thomas
>Bitstream Inc.
>
>
>
>	-----Original Message-----
>	From: Alexander Shopov [mailto:al_shopov@xxxxxxxxx]
>	Sent: Thu 1/23/2003 5:34 AM
>	To: Bob Thomas
>	Cc:
>	Subject: Cyrillic in Free Fonts
>
>
>
>	Dear Mr. Thomas,
>	First I would like to thank you for yor wonderful
>gift
>	to
>	the free software community - the free fonts you are
>	to
>	release.
>	I am in no doubt that they will be of the high
>quality
>	your company has provided up till now.
>	As I am a developer that takes special interest in
>	making software work for my country - Bulgaria,
>	I am very interested whether your fonts will include
>	the glyphs of temporary Cyrillic alphabet. This is
>	very important not only to me and may rather small
>	coutrybut to big countries and the numerous users in
>	Russia too.
>	I would very much like a second press release stating
>	the
>	included alphabets - Latin, Greek, Cyrillic etc.
>	Whether they ionclude my aplhabet or not - you still
>	are making a very big gift.
>	Thanx a lot.
>	Best regards:
>	Alexander Shopov
>
>
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