His "or" was to suggest that instead of only self-hosting the font file, you simply use a google one with a "fall-back" that happens to be a super-standard font

His "or" was to suggest that instead of only self-hosting the font file, you simply use a google one with a "fall-back" that happens to be a super-standard font that won't reasonably disappear from most OSes in the near future. That way, you get a reasonable "best of both".