Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Free UCS Scalable Fonts

[Primoz Peterlin]

Hello,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jaime E. Villate wrote:

> Thanks, your project has been approved. Please notice that we are not worried
> about savannah-hackers readers, but the general public; you'd be surprise to
> know how many people think gnuplot is a GNU package. And there are even people
> who think that using the GPL means becoming part of the GNU project. Even we
> savannah-hackers have to ask very often address@hidden whether certain
> package is part of GNU or not.

Yes, I was not aware at the moment that we are not talking about the
savannah-hackers readers any more.

> Best of luck with your project, which is a very important one.

Thank you. There are indeed happy moments in this work. Like when I got in
contact with a guy who is trying to get Thaana fonts into actual Unicode
implementations (Thaana script is used for writing Dhivehi, a language
spoken on the Maldives archipelago - there are some 300.000 speakers of
it, so IBM, Microsoft or Oracle are not going to localize their products
for them), or a guy from rural Orissa who made a career as a computer
programmer in Bangalore, Karnataka, and is now trying to get his native
Oriya to computers. These guys are enthusiasts in their own area just as
RMS is (OK, perhaps not as successful and famous :), so I feel obliged to
do my part as well and help them where I can.

With kind regards, Primoz

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