Microsoft Refused To Pay $.01 For Frutiger
Turns out Microsoft refused to pay the licensing fees for the Frutiger font, instead creating a virtually identical font called Segoe UI, which is the main font in Windows Vista. The sad fact: Microsoft was offered the chance to license the original for just one penny per copy of Windows. Jeez, were they frightened the $2,000,000 charge over the first two and a half years would severly decrease their billions in profits?
Read the whole article at Typophile, which also alleges the owner of the font can’t fight Microsoft’s clone because he is seventy-five and dying of lung disease.
(via Digg)
