henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (04/11/90)
In article <10623@netcom.UUCP> maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) writes: >>Stealing other peoples' work is unethical even when it is not illegal. > once again, this is not stealing, Mr. Boortz is not proposing the >distribution of the actual Postscript programs created by others, he >is proposing creating his OWN version of a typeface... He is proposing to use other peoples' work -- creating the letter shapes of a font is *not* easy to do well -- for his own purposes without compensation to them. Sounds like stealing to me. Don't confuse the difficult task of designing shapes with the largely-mechanical chore of encoding them for computer reproduction, just because the easy part is legally protected and the hard part isn't. He's still using someone else's work. -- With features like this, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology who needs bugs? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu