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<version>1</version>
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<head>
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<title>PDFreaders - Model letter</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<p id="category"><a href="pdfreaders.html">Free Software PDF Readers</a></p>
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<h1>Model letter to contact the institutions</h1>
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<!-- Commented out references to the FSFE
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<p class="image half">
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<img src="/graphics/logo.png" alt="FSFE logo" />
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</p>
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<p class="half last">
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Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.<br/>
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Linienstr. 141<br/>
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10115 Berlin<br/>
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Germany
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</p>
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-->
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<p class="half last">
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Your name<br/>
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Your address<br/>
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Your city<br/>
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Your country
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<p>
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Name of the institution<br/>
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Postal address<br/>
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Country
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</p>
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<p>Dear Mr or Ms,</p>
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<p>
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Subject: Advertising for proprietary software on your website
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</p>
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<p>
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We have <!-- Commented out because buglist will soon be closed
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received a <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html">report that your
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institution</a> -->
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noticed that your institution is advertising a proprietary
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software program. In the present case, you are advising users
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of your website to download the proprietary PDF reader
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<var>PDFREADER</var> from <var>COMPANY</var>, for example
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on <var>URL</var> <!-- for the rare cases they promote Foxit or
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another reader we can add that here -->. Even though this program
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is gratis it is advertisement for a certain company, like
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advertisement for a gratis test drive with a car is advertisement
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for the manufacturer. So with this advertisement you favour one
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company and its software over everyone else in the market,
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distorting the competition in the software market.
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</p>
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<p>
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One solution to this is to remove the advertisement from your
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website. On https://fsfe.org/activities/pdfreaders/petition.html
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you can find a list of organisations, companies, and individuals
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who support this request by signing the "Petition For The Removal
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Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites". By
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adhering to the <a href="/freesoftware/standards/def.html">Open Standard</a>
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PDF, you make sure your documents can be opened by all programs
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that implement the PDF standard, no matter from which vendor. If
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you want to provide the visitors guidance, we recommend that you
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list several PDF readers, by saying something like "to open this
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PDF file, you need a PDF reader. You can download one of the
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following programs (list is not exhaustive)". Both alternatives
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are much fairer than recommending just one reader made by one
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company.
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</p>
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<p>
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On http://www.pdfreaders.org/ you can find some examples of PDF
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readers which you could point to on your website. All readers
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listed there are Free Software, which means that everybody is free
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to use them for any purpose, study how they work, share them
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either gratis or for a fee, and improve the program. These readers
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are vendor-neutral, and every company can sell the program, adapt
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it for their own solutions, or make the software a part of the
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services they offer.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have any questions, or would like to learn more about Free
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Software and Open Standards in general, we remain available to
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offer you our full support.
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</p>
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<p>
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Kind regards,<br />
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<!-- Commented out references to the FSFE
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Karsten Gerloff<br />
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President, Free Software Foundation Europe
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-->
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Your signature
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</body>
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