[Wylug-discuss] Wylug-discuss Digest, Vol 66, Issue 3

[Simon Whiteley]

On Thursday 16 September 2010 13:00:01 wylug-discuss-request at wylug.org.uk 
wrote:
> The Free Software Foundation Europe started a new campaign this week to
> expose  the frequency with which governments advertise non-Free PDF reader
> software applications [1].
> 
> As part of this campaign, we have written a petition [2] which we will
> send along with an explanatory letter to offending institutions, explaining
> why  they should stop these practices and link to Free Software programs
> instead [3].
> 
> If you support the campaign, please spread the word about it, and help us
> to  gather as many reports and signatures as we can on the pages linked
> below.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Sam Tuke - Free Software Foundation Europe
> 
> 1. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/
> 2. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html
> 3. http://pdfreaders.org/


This kind of 'commercial product placement' by publicly funded organisations 
is fundamentaly wrong.  Unless GNU/Linux and other alternative software is 
given the same kind of promotion, particularly when needing to open such 
documents, we will further entrech the mindset of 'Microsoft is computers'.

I signed immediately and urge everyone who reads this list to sign and ask 
anyone they know to do the same.

All the best,

Simon Whiteley.