Feeling uncomfortable with designation `public'

[K. Berry]

    I feel more and more uncomfortable with the designation `public' in the 

Fine. public/ seems to be misunderstood/misused by everyone, so let's
drop it.

    b) There is ongoing talk (e.g. on comp.fonts) which wants to equate 
    public with low quality. Of course, the originators of that talk have 

I sincerely doubt a directory name will make any difference as to
people's opinions of font quality. Good fonts will become well-known,
bad fonts will be forgotten, by their very nature. But this is a side issue.