Fonts are a funny thing. Like recipes they were often cloned, some companies sold sets. I bought a Mac clone and it came with a cd of fonts from “bitstream”
“The company received extensive criticism for its strategy of cheaply offering digitisations of pre-existing typefaces that it had not designed. While technically not illegal, font designer John Hudson would describe its selling of large numbers of typefaces on CD at discount prices as "one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type".
Like a lot of font foundries, monotype ended up buying that one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Inc
“The company received extensive criticism for its strategy of cheaply offering digitisations of pre-existing typefaces that it had not designed. While technically not illegal, font designer John Hudson would describe its selling of large numbers of typefaces on CD at discount prices as "one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type".
Like a lot of font foundries, monotype ended up buying that one.