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--- Comment #7 from Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot@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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