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Saturday, August 17

We must have open, inalienable resources at the heart of the Web. The news that Microsoft has renaged on its provision of basic fonts [via dev.null] to the Web community shows that when the rights to the basics of Web life are left with license terms that can be modified on a whim, our ability to share common expression can be withdrawn without appeal. Maybe fonts are a small thing, but we have all been led to believe that MSFT was offering a freedom in good faith and they have arbitrarily withdrawn it. Shame!

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