CompuServe Messages

Tripp: Neither you nor Adobe have done this because it would not be good to be publicly known as someone who rips off the hard work of others as general business practice. I am told that Bitstream has a "take it or leave it" royalty payment policy, and if the designer or owner of the font doesn't take their royalty, they go ahead and make the font anyway, since the designer can't get them for copyright infringement if they use a different name. Thus the Bitstream "Swiss" for Helvetica, etc. Earl Allen, Altsys Technical Support (who notes that Metamorphosis is more like a disassembler than it is like a copy machine)