Dave Nichols and Mark Brier, I was asked to pass your survey address http://www.ncc.co.uk/research/projects/os_hub.cfm on to organisations that I know. However, I am surprised to see that readers are told they "require version 7 of Acrobat Reader" in order to participate.
1. Can you publish instructions for participating with free/open source software? My copy of GNU Ghostscript gave an error on the PDFs which I can forward on request if it would help. 2. Do you agree that requiring use of non-free/open software will bias the responses you receive? 3. Are you aware of the history of Acrobat's publisher Adobe, the DMCA and Dmitry Sklyarov? [1] 4. I see that a prize of a Nokia Internet Tablet is offered. Are you aware of Nokia's support for European software patents[2], which would threaten free/open source software? 5. Do you think these links to the Adobe and Nokia corporations will further bias the responses you receive? I await your reply with interest. Faithfully, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html References. [1] Free Dmitry Sklyarov, ISSUE: N324, viewed 5 May 2006 at http://www.freesklyarov.org/ [2] Nokia and Software Patents, FFII, viewed 5 May 2006 at http://swpat.ffii.org/gasnu/nokia/index.en.html _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
