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Dear fellows@fsfe,
I am writing you this email to inform you about a complaint I filed to
the European Commission that requires Adobe Reader version 8 (and no
other version) in its system for research project submission.
I have sent a email to the support system of the MSCA / ECAS
(http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/marie-sklod
owska-curie-actions
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas )
of which I send you a copy below for information.
I also attach to this email the screenshot of the .pdf that they
provide and that is not working in free .pdf on my linux system.
In the hope that helps moving things for the better,
All the best,
Didier Roche
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Didier M. Roche
IPSL/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Adresse:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Centre d'Etude de Saclay
CEA-Orme des Merisiers, bat. 701
F-91191 GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX
Tel.:
+33 (0) 1 69 08 96 52
Didier.Roche(a)lsce.ipsl.fr
Pasted email request to the EU: (domain is ec.europa.eu)
Dear Support@ECAS,
I write this email to complain about the document format in the
submission form: indeed, downloading the administrative .pdf form, I
obtained :
The document you are trying to load requires Adobe Reader 8 or higher.
You may not have the Adobe Reader installed or your viewing
environment may not be properly configured to use Adobe Reader.
For information on how to install Adobe Reader and configure your
viewing environment please
see http://www.adobe.com/go/pdf_forms_configure.
This is a *scandal*, since Adobe Reader 8 DOES NOT EXIST on Linux
systems [THE ONLY SYSTEM I HAVE ACCESS TO] and thus we are bound to
use other .pdf viewers. Requesting a SPECIFIC VERSION of a proprietary
software that only runs on SPECIFIC Operating System is *NOT* an
appropriate behavior to provide equal access to all in the submission
of funding proposals for the European Research area!!!
This is particularly problematic since MANY .pdf readers exist for all
existing Operating Systems, as summarized here for example:
http://pdfreaders.org
I expect in your answer a *fast* action that will allow me to access,
use and register a proposal BEFORE September, 10th, 2015 !!!
Looking forward to hear for a solution,
Dr. Didier Roche
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Here an e-mail. I replied that we deciced to end the campaign, but
thanked him a lot. In case someone wants to act upon it, feel free.
Regards,
Matthias
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