How to Earn Money

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How can a typeface designer and font developer make a living releasing fonts under the OFL and publishing free information on typeface design?

Context

The common conversations since Napster about how to pay musicians or writers other artists in the age of computer networks is the same as the issue of how to pay font designers.

Fonts are a curious kind of software because they are bang in the middle between functional software and artistic works.

So the business models of Free Software developers are also relevant.

Richard Stallman explores some ideas about this in the 'A new copyright bargain' and 'Three new models of copyright' sections of [http://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/ViewPopUpArticle.jsp?id=8

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