> This is at least partially a reaction to the Linux community's tricks to get fonts. Some people in the Linux community wrote a program to automatically downlo

> This is at least partially a reaction to the Linux community's tricks to get fonts. Some people in the Linux community wrote a program to automatically download and install Microsoft's TrueType Font Collection fonts after installation. This is true, but perhaps misleading since it misses an important point. The font downloader is legal according to the licensing terms: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#cite_note-1 http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#c... Even if there were super-effective bits embedded in the font which magically enforced the licensing terms it would still have been allowed.