Announcement: pdfreaders.org

[KwangErn Liew]

Thanks for this initiative, I believe it's important to get the word
out that there are better alternatives.

Am sure there are many alternatives out there, how will the list be
managed? On a popularity basis?


KwangErn

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:58 PM, HennR <discodestroyer at gmx.net> wrote:
>    Dear Fellows,
>
>    during our regular meetings in the Berlin Fellowship group we
>    discussed how PDF is a very useful format, but its usage often goes
>    hand in hand with promotion of proprietary software, even though
>    there are Free Software PDF readers. So we decided to do something
>    about it.
>
>    Over the past months we discussed with other Fellows across Europe
>    on discussions at lists.fsfe.org, what we should be doing. Together we
>    have set up an initiative for promoting Free Software PDF readers at
>    http://pdfreaders.org.
>
>    The idea is that web masters should have an alternative for the "Get
>    Adobe Reader"-Buttons, linking to pdfreaders.org to inform people
>    about Free Software PDF readers and where to find them. There are
>    several buttons for pdfreaders.org that can be used for this purpose
>    online at http://pdfreaders.org/graphics.html.
>
>    When people then visit pdfreaders.org, they will get some very brief
>    information about Open Standards and Free Software, and why they
>    matter - along with information about the Free Software PDF readers
>    and links for more information.
>
>    We hope that you will help us to put these buttons on all sites that
>    use PDF.
>
>    Greetings from Berlin,
>    HennR and Hannes
>
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