A very common scenario is that Microsoft’s fonts are the only option is in schools, universities and other public and private organizations. However Liberation fonts are not identical to Microsoft’s fonts and in some cases you may need to use Arial or Times New Roman. When you open a document written in Times New Roman, the equivalent Liberation Font will be used to keep the document uninterrupted. The Liberation Fonts were created by Red Hat to substitute Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman and Courier New as their width is the same. This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use an open source fonts “Liberation fonts” to substitute Microsoft fonts by default.
Many Linux distributions don’t provide proprietary software by default to avoid licensing issue. Times New Roman, Arial and other such fonts are owned by Microsoft and they are not open source.
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