Regarding the requirement to run Adobe on private computer, at stake are many people, not one, that is why I recommend sending letters to government and demanding free software while explaining why propriatery is inhibiting users' freedom.
Many times such letter writings worked. While poster of the request may find solution for him -- it would be better to continue solving this problem for future and follow up with those in charge. Canad is so much recommending proprietary software, that is because people find individual solutions and don't complain. One should learn from protests and campaigns of FSFE in Europe, and simply do what they do, warning public officials of disservice and demanding fair treatment so that free software products can be used. By making forms in such way that only proprietary software can handle such forms, I would additionally asked of any ties to Adobe, and preferred treatment as that definitely increases income of US based company -- why would Canada be favoring it? It is sign of possible corruption in administration. From an article on: https://www.pcworld.com/article/214034/article.html EU Websites to Stop Promoting Proprietary PDF Readers Just one month after an organization that promotes free software hit out at the European Union for promoting proprietary PDF readers on its websites, 172 public institutions have removed such advertisements. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) found that the main E.U. portal europa.eu and the European Patent Office both promoted proprietary software. Other sites doing that included national ministries, parliaments and law enforcement agencies. "Several institutions replied stating that they agree with our concerns and that they will modify their websites," said campaign manager Matthias Kirschner. The PDF file format, originally developed by Adobe Systems, has now been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an international standard. Adobe Reader remains proprietary, but the file format can be read or written by a number of other software applications, some proprietary, some of them open source or free software. Most versions of the PDF file reader are open standards and free, but FSFE has received reports of 2,286 public sector institutions that advertise non-free PDF readers on their websites across 41 countries. The FSFE believes that by promoting proprietary software, "the public sector becomes a marketing channel for that company and its products, making it harder for free PDF readers to gain market share." "By advertising non-free software, they're doing citizens a disservice," said Karsten Gerloff, president of FSFE. "Democratic governments are supposed to give us freedom, not to drive us into dependence on a single software vendor." Of those that agreed to change their sites following the FSFE campaign, almost all reported institutions in Croatia deleted the advertisement. Half of those contacted in Russia and Slovenia also fulfilled FSFE's request. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
