From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 02:51:10 CST
On 14 Jan 2009, at 05:31, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Karl Pentzlin <karl dash pentzlin at acssoft dot de> wrote:
>
>> For instance, the price for the first two code points must be high
>> enough (i.e. some USD X0,000) to engage a lawyer to formulate such
>> principles in a way that neither the UTC nor ISO have to bother
>> about legal questions in the future, and Microsoft and Apple must
>> agree in fact to buy these code points for their well-known symbols
>> which occur in the PUA of many fonts.
>>
>> Even for the subsequent code points, USD 10,000 seems more
>> appropriate than USD 1,000 (as it is an one-time fee).
>
> Maybe there could be different price points for corporations,
> institutions, individuals, students, liaisons, etc.
Well, this is a non-starter.
But... if only *I* had a grand for every character I've proposed and
encoded....
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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