Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice should have own "LibreOfficeFont"

On 11/20/2010 03:58 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> "Mateusz Zasuwik" <mzasuwik@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:AANLkTin4f7Ls=f5cf+MT3uL2KOaxtNXb2KO4Exf=034W@mail.gmail.com...
> > Hello
> >
> > Early this year FlashCounter published a statistic showed popularity 
> > OOo in
> > selected countries. We found out that it had 22% in Poland and Czech
> > Republic and 21% in Germany.
> >
> > http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html 
> >
> > http://ooblog.pl/2010/02/06/polska-swiatowym-liderem-we-wdrozeniu-openoffice/(polish) 
> >
> >
> > The study relies on extricating fonts installed on the system and 
> > identify
> > the installed Office suites. For OOo it's OpenSymbol and for MSO it's
> > Calibri. I think LibreOffice should have own unique font (not RedHat
> > Liberation Fonts). It can be ugly and useless but should "be" to next
> > compare in future.
>
> That's a very clever idea but how was it implemented? How do you (or 
> FlashCounter) decide what fonts are installed on my system? What 
> approval did I give for that to be done? If I approved it, why didn't 
> I instead simply say what office suite(s) I had installed? What 
> software looked at my fonts? Is it still installed on my system? Is it 
> still sending the information? What other information is it sending? 
> To whom is the data being sent? To whom are they sending the data? 
> What other uses are being made of the data? Did I approve those uses? 
> When? How?
Harold,

This font would be part of the Loffice installer package, just like any 
other feature that would possibly raise security concerns. Perhaps an 
install time option to install this and other open fonts?

Also as to how the scanner could find this information, as a amateur web 
programmer I know it is an intrinsic part of your web browser to be able 
to know what fonts are installed. Any javascript or website can find 
this with a simple command. This isn't because of any thing in the 
office suite.

-Sonic4Spuds

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