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Re: LaserWriter Screen NFNTs (One Last Time!)

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From: Brian Diehm
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1988 21:17
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>I contacted Adobe a while ago about whether one could post
>their laserwriter screen fonts on a bulletin board for downloading.
>Their answer was a very emphatic NO. They have put the fonts on
>Compuserve but they definitely do not want them made available on any
>other bulletin board. Now I'm not sure if they would consider anonymous
>ftp to be the same as a bulletin board, but I suspect that they might
>treat both similarly. I think someone should contact Adobe to get their
>permission for what is being done here, but I doubt they will give
>it. The legality of posting these fonts should be a serious concern.

That's it, I'm out of this. I don't want to hear about it again, I will not
honor requests for these, and I'm pretty pissed off about the whole thing.
I'm probably already up to lose my house and all my personal possessions, for
trying to help folks out. I no longer even care if "proof" comes that it's
just OK; the lawyers have been let loose and nobody is safe.

They have already been mailed to Willard Korfhage and David Zuhn. If these
people wish to assume the risk and responsibility for distributing them, THAT
IS THEIR BUSINESS. I personally wish I could recall them right now.

Maybe the paranoia of my system admin folks is justified, if for other reasons
than they state. Good bye. I wish I could say it's been fun. . .

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaserWriter Screen NFNTs (One Last Time!)
Keywords: Paranoid, Defensive, NFNTs
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Date: 17 Dec 88 21:17:09 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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