Munzir Taha wrote: >>I believe in your goals and I would be pleased to contribute to the >>open-source effort where there is a benefit for my company and, in my >>private time, where there is a benefit for the world. I do not see anything >>short-sighted in my view. I agree that there is a place for Open-Source >>software/fonts but this does not exclude the need for commercial >>software/fonts where people, who have spent many years learning their trade >>can see some benefit from their work. This is all I will say on the subject >>as this whole issue has been debated too many times elsewhere. > >I agree completely. > >>If Diwan was >>contracted to make an Open-Source font, it would be happy to do this but it >>cannot give away its property without a good business reason. > > >Ok I think you can lend a hand to the community in this issue by making a good contract ;-) >We appreciate your work and we know it's not easy. For me, it's easier to learn how to crack any BIOS using >assembly programming than to learn how to hint fonts when they go as small as 5points or so ;-) >Again what I ask for is to help us print Quran inside our documents. You choose how. > >Please, we are not $un or M$. Ossama has sacificed his holiday to support Duali. When is your next holiday Ossama? ;-) > Ah, sorry for the late answer. I've been really busy with the teaching of two new courses for 8 hours a day and preparing the rest of the day. I should be having a vacation starting July 1'st or so, and probably I'll travel with bus (15KD from Kuwait to Jordan :) ), and I can save money this way for the project and my self as well. So, brother Isam, please provide me with a list of what software you may need or anything from Kuwait. I've just got a copy of RedHat Linux 9.0 while I was typing this email :P. Also, I tried to download HaydarLinux 1.0 but seems like the Internet connection I have these days is really slow, and I'll have to wait for some time. By the way, talking about the font for the Holy Qur'an, what happened to the font that Youcef was working on? Speex.org also released version 1 of it's speex protocol. Is there any plan it would be used in Qur'an project? I really haven't got time to try it just yet, but I'll do soon to check if it's quality is better. regards, Ossama Khayat
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