[poronski]

I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance.

> who needs a service ?

Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.

[jhancock]

Its fine to compensate people for the tough work they do on fonts. It still doesn't mean you have to run it as a service. You can still license. Usually, most customers that will pay, do, without regard to what they can do illegally. Those that won't pay, probably won't pay for the service either.

[oldgregg]

Yeah, okay, well if you still cling to the antiquated concept of IP then I won't downvote you for sheer ignorance.

[potatolicious]

Listen, we don't much tolerate hostile assholes around here - so if you're just going to hurl insults at other members of this community from the comfort of your chair, then please do us all a favour and GTFO.

To address your rather poorly communicated point though: the concept of IP isn't going to disappear, especially not overnight. To pretend that we don't need to find solutions around the IP minefield is unwise at best.

[sailormoon]

I didn't think he acted like a hostile asshole. That comment about sheer ignorance had already been made to him, he was just handing it back.