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There's something really strange happening here. It looks like a few days ago someone anonymously edited the wikipedia page to add a designer and claim it's ope

There's something really strange happening here. It looks like a few days ago someone anonymously edited the wikipedia page to add a designer and claim it's open source, linking to the Github page that was just created a few minutes before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Consolas#Open_Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Consolas#Open_Source?

ChrisSD 8y ago
I was just about to comment that it looks like a joke or a scam of some kind.
- skymt 8y ago
  My money's on total ignorance of copyright law. In a world where people post videos with disclaimers of "no copyright intended," I can believe that someone could think that a work they don't own can made open source by simply declaring it so.
  - ChrisSD 8y ago
    You're probably right. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around that level of wilful ignorance. It's worse than programmers who think they can "hack" the law.
    - oxguy3 8y ago
      I don't think this is willful ignorance -- comes off to me more as a child or mentally ill person who means well but doesn't understand what they're doing. Did you see the screenshot of the Microsoft support conversation that they posted as proof it was open source? https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png
  - seba_dos1 8y ago
    Looking at the whole account and Wikipedia edits, I'd guess that it's either a troll, a child or a person with some mental illness thinking they do good.
vortico 8y ago
And the reply is hilarious. It's a screenshot of his conversation with Microsoft technical support. https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png This is either a troll or someone who's gone off the deep end.
- sdinsn 8y ago
  He seems unstable...
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yura 8y ago
Yes, sorry, I saw it in Wikipedia too. I didn't bother to fact check too deeply since I was so happy about it. Looking at the Wikipedia page, as well as the conversations given in the proof: "Consolas used to have bad copyright but I made it open source!" and "Consolas now has twice the amount of designers it used to have.", it does look like some sort of twisted joke. My bad for this, we still have to hear from Microsoft but I don't think this is legit.
sebazzz 8y ago
If it was really open source the source files for compiling the ttf would have been published. And the repository would be under the Microsoft organisation account, not some random user account.

ChrisSD 8y ago

I was just about to comment that it looks like a joke or a scam of some kind.

skymt 8y ago
My money's on total ignorance of copyright law. In a world where people post videos with disclaimers of "no copyright intended," I can believe that someone could think that a work they don't own can made open source by simply declaring it so.
- ChrisSD 8y ago
  You're probably right. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around that level of wilful ignorance. It's worse than programmers who think they can "hack" the law.
  - oxguy3 8y ago
    I don't think this is willful ignorance -- comes off to me more as a child or mentally ill person who means well but doesn't understand what they're doing. Did you see the screenshot of the Microsoft support conversation that they posted as proof it was open source? https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png
- seba_dos1 8y ago
  Looking at the whole account and Wikipedia edits, I'd guess that it's either a troll, a child or a person with some mental illness thinking they do good.

vortico 8y ago

And the reply is hilarious. It's a screenshot of his conversation with Microsoft technical support. https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png https://i.redd.it/9zkgslagked21.png This is either a troll or someone who's gone off the deep end.

sdinsn 8y ago
He seems unstable...

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yura 8y ago

Yes, sorry, I saw it in Wikipedia too. I didn't bother to fact check too deeply since I was so happy about it. Looking at the Wikipedia page, as well as the conversations given in the proof: "Consolas used to have bad copyright but I made it open source!" and "Consolas now has twice the amount of designers it used to have.", it does look like some sort of twisted joke. My bad for this, we still have to hear from Microsoft but I don't think this is legit.

sebazzz 8y ago

If it was really open source the source files for compiling the ttf would have been published. And the repository would be under the Microsoft organisation account, not some random user account.