Metric Equivalent of Microsoft Fonts for Linux | Linux Today

Metric Equivalent of Microsoft Fonts for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 16, 2007

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Visit any random website and chances are the website expects
your machine to have a set of fonts which have become the de-facto
standard on the Internet. The fonts being Arial, Times New Roman,
Courier New and so on. While it may not be illegal to install these
fonts on a Linux machine, they are propritery and are owned by
Microsoft. And Microsoft does not licence third parties to
redistribute these fonts–a reason why you don’t find these
commonly used popular fonts installed in Linux by default.

“This is going to change once and for all…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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