[Bug 408497] Include DejaVu fonts

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Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net>  2008-06-01 13:10:27 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> For Windows and Mac systems there's debatable need for DejaVu.

DejaVu includes glyphs for many minority scripts that Microsoft does not
support at all.

I don't know if shipping dejavu with firefox is or is not a good idea
(OpenOffice.org certainly thinks shipping it is good for them). I do know that
the Mozilla Foundation could do a lot for the Free web by identifying and
sponsoring notable free and open font projects (DejaVu, Stix, Liberation, SIL
fonts, GFS fonts, etc) needed to display text in browsers and other
applications (instead of relying on proprietary limited projects like the
Microsoft Core fonts).

Mozilla Foundation people probably know best if the most effective sponsorship
would be to
— bundle those fonts in Firefox
— direct Firefox users to them from Mozilla sites
– inject some money in those projects
– inject some work in those projects (pay people to complete missing unicode
blocks, incite professional type designers to work on them via some Firefox
ego-strocking)
— liberate other fonts (like Red Hat did with Liberation)
– all of this


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