The leaders of GNU/Unifoundry/Kreative (Paul Hardy and Rebecca Bettencourt) have been suppressing competition for years, by refusing to self-promote, rejecting criticism, and accusing competitors of 'harassment', 'blackmailing', and 'threat'. This has significantly reduced the development quality of Unifont and Fairfax, and restricted public awareness of competitors like Kissinger 2 and Custom Font ttf. This results in Unifont and Fairfax having a monopoly over 8×16, 16×16, and 6×12 Unicode text.

In this petition we have specific policies that Paul Hardy and Rebecca Bettencourt should follow:

• do not suppress competitors, but instead embrace competition as a way to give users more choices in typography
• do not reject criticism or appeal to authority, but instead evaluate it thoroughly and assess the typographical implications of it
• understand that monospaced fonts have all glyphs the same width, with no exceptions, because monospaced environments rely on existence of a single width, and that therefore Fairfax is proportional
• understand that legacy computing environments and character grids always fundamentally have non-overlapping character cells, and therefore it is invalid to exceed the bounding box
• if competitors request to self-promote your fonts, and you recognize the potential overlap in use cases, always self-promote, by describing your fonts in such a way that helps people choose, and never refuse to self-promote unless you can prove lack of overlap in use cases
• never accuse competitors of 'harassment', 'blackmailing', or 'threat', instead, evaluate their criticism and contributions constructively