Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

Posted Oct 17, 2013 9:54 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
Parent article: Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

Yesyes, and

> open-licensed software will put professionals out of work, quality will
> plummet, and companies that use open source software in their products are
> exploiting naive developers who do not know the value of their output.

Sounds like someone here is stuck in the 1980ies.

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Web fonts, open source, and industry disruption

Posted Oct 17, 2013 15:03 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Although to be fair this comment comes up because this is sometimes the case. We've all heard complaints about companies "stealing" a developers work because they use it under the terms of the license but do nothing to support the developer who wrote it. Just because you work full-time hours on a big important project doesn't mean you will make a living at that project and not need to have a day job to fund yourself. That is suboptimal in my opinion.