FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 2, 2009 @02:37PM from the prety-darn-fine dept.

FSFE Fellow writes "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. FSFE president Georg Greve says: 'Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers. Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.'"

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Re:Is this useful? by timmarhy · 2009-02-02 15:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

i think it's funny that they don't respect adobes right to protect their data, such as the internal workings of their pdf reader. if you really are about freedom, you won't begrudge others choices like FOSS do.

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