eWEEK editor Jason Brooks points out that SourgeForge is now hosting Microsoft's core TrueType fonts, along with a FAQ detailing installation instructions under Linux. Microsoft recently discontinued offering free fonts on its typography page, citing 'abuse', but the original license terms for the fonts apparently do not disallow others from making them available. (The SourceForge Linux fonts project is located here.) Brooks writes . . .

“The Linux and open-source communities have done a pretty good job of coming up with open-source analogs of the proprietary components necessary to get things done with your computer. However, there is a particularly high-profile exception that leaps to mind: fonts . . .”

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