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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected], 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
