Hi some of you that aren't members of fsfe may be interested in this:
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: PDFreaders: Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites Date: Monday 11 Oct 2010, 14:00:57 From: Fellowship of FSFE <[email protected]> To: Kenny Duffus <[email protected]> Hello! The bug hunt for the pdfreaders campaign of FSFE [1] is entering its last week. Up from next week, we will contact the institutions, sending them an explanatory letter and the Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites. So far, we have 933 individual signatures. We can do better! Below is the text of the petition. Read it through, speak about it and help us gather more signatures. If you haven't signed yet and wish to do so, just go to the online version [2]. Thank you very much in advance for your support! === Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites We, the undersigned, hereby state that we expressly and unequivocally oppose the advertising of proprietary software products on government websites. Such advertising breaches impartiality and encourages citizens to employ technologies that unnecessarily restrict their freedom. The role of government is not to support certain market participants and not others, particularly when doing so works to maintain the monopolies of global software companies. In explanations of how to use digital resources that they provide, government agencies should clarify that multiple methods are available, and favour technologies which do not restrict users' digital rights; by linking to PDFreaders.org, for example. Free Software guarantees the users right to use (for any purpose), study (without secrets), share (with anyone), and improve the software that they use. Public institutions should publish their documents in formats that can be read with Free Software. Indeed, many Free Software applications exist for reading such documents.Governments should lead citizens to freedom, and encourage them to make use of these applications. Sincerely, The Undersigned 1. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html 2. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html (both pages are available in 10 languages) -- Maëlle Costa Free Software Foundation Europe - intern im : [email protected] ----------------------------------------- -- Kenny _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
