> but thanks to licensing fees we've been forced to re-invent that wheel over and over. The fact that licensing fees are even an obstacle here for adoption of

> but thanks to licensing fees we've been forced to re-invent that wheel over and over. The fact that licensing fees are even an obstacle here for adoption of a font designed over half a century ago highlights how broken the current intellectual property laws are. At some point of near-universal adoption, a functioning society should just release such a thing into the public domain and provide the original author a pension for his troubles, instead of worrying about rent-seeker from every amateur designer.