HTML -> >- Printed Copy

[Brian Kelly]

> Date:          Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:47:11 -0800
> Reply-to:      jmc at poe.acc.virginia.edu
> From:          Jim Campbell <jmc at poe.acc.virginia.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject:       Re: HTML -> >- Printed Copy

>     MICROSOFT EXTENDS TRUETYPE FONTS TO THE WEB, ENABLING RICHER WEB PAGES
>   
>    Forty Industry Leaders Including Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia and Oracle
>       Support Solution Based on Industry-Standard TrueType Technology
>   
>         BOSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
>    today announced that its TrueType(R) font technology has been extended
>    to the World Wide Web, allowing designers to create great-looking Web
>    pages that consumers can view -- even if they haven't bought the
>    specific typefaces for their PCs.  Forty industry leaders -- including

Notice this says "for their PCs".  The Web was developed to provide
a platform-independent information system.  Should libraries
be throwing away this patform independence by getting into bed
with Mr Gates?!

Brian Kelly
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