• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The end result, Aptos, is Microsoft’s trademarked intellectual property.

    Well, there it is.

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      8 months ago

      This is much the same as Calibri, Arial and other bundled fonts. Even Times New Roman is meant to be licensed for commercial work.

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        8 months ago

        Right, but they’ve changed the default from one that’s been around for about 15 years and for which there are numerous open source alternatives to a new one.

        The open source fonts will catch up eventually but really all this is about is them refreshing their proprietary shit for 365, and making it cloud based to boot.