On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 19:15 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:20 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 
> >>I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I
> >>downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat
> >>6.0, which is not available for Linux. Earlier versions, and also xpdf,
> >>show "COPY" on every page.
> >>
> >>Thank you, Canon. I shall _not_ but another Canon camera.
> > 
> > 
> > Jeez, I think you're overreacting a bit.  Reader 6.0 has been out
> > for a while now.  Is it any wonder that companies are generating 
> > PDFs for it?
> 
> I think the problem is not that Canon made a PDF for Reader 6.0, but 
> that they added some kind of copy protection that is only supported by 
> Reader 6.0. Which, IMO, is quite stupid since there is no need to copy 
> protect those manuals.

One word: lawyers.

Killing all the lawyers would be a very bad thing, so lets just
kill 80% of them.

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There is no "right of journalists to keep sources confidential"
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