| Reason | Explanation | |--------|-------------| | | Millions of old government files, newspaper archives, and academic papers are locked in Bijoy 71 encoding. Opening them requires the exact font. | | Cost barrier | The official Bijoy software (now called Bijoy Bayanno, Bijoy 52, etc.) is paid. Many students and home users cannot or prefer not to pay. | | Lack of awareness | Users may not know that free, Unicode-compliant Bengali fonts exist (e.g., SolaimanLipi, Kalpurush, Siyam Rupali). | | Keyboard familiarity | Typists trained on Bijoy layout often resist switching to other layouts like Avro (phonetic) or National (Jatiyo). | 4. Legal and Ethical Status of Free Downloads Bijoy 71 remains proprietary software. Unauthorized distribution of the font file (typically Bijoy71.ttf or similar) constitutes copyright infringement under Bangladeshi intellectual property law (Copyright Act, 2000). The official company, Bijoy IT, has not released it as freeware or open source.