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Hello,
what's wrong about Adobe? They gave PDF to the world free and
documented.
I agree fully with your actions against Microsoft, but against Adobe I
don't understand.
Please clarify.
Regards,
Robert Best
On 10/11/2010 02:02 PM, Fellowship of FSFE wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The bug hunt for the pdfreaders campaign of FSFE [1] is entering its
> last week. Up from next week, we will contact the institutions, sending
> them an explanatory letter and the Petition For The Removal Of
> Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites.
>
> So far, we have 933 individual signatures. We can do better!
> Below is the text of the petition. Read it through, speak about it and
> help us gather more signatures. If you haven't signed yet and wish to do
> so, just go to the online version [2].
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your support!
>
> ===
>
> Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public
> Websites
>
> We, the undersigned, hereby state that we expressly and unequivocally
> oppose the advertising of proprietary software products on government
> websites.
>
> Such advertising breaches impartiality and encourages citizens to employ
> technologies that unnecessarily restrict their freedom. The role of
> government is not to support certain market participants and not others,
> particularly when doing so works to maintain the monopolies of global
> software companies.
>
> In explanations of how to use digital resources that they provide,
> government agencies should clarify that multiple methods are available,
> and favour technologies which do not restrict users' digital rights; by
> linking to PDFreaders.org, for example.
>
> Free Software guarantees the users right to use (for any purpose), study
> (without secrets), share (with anyone), and improve the software that
> they use. Public institutions should publish their documents in formats
> that can be read with Free Software. Indeed, many Free Software
> applications exist for reading such documents.Governments should lead
> citizens to freedom, and encourage them to make use of these applications.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The Undersigned
>
> 1. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html
> 2. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html
> (both pages are available in 10 languages)
>
>
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http://rwbest.no.sapo.pt/
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