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<title>2286 public websites advertise non-free software</title>
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<h1>2286 public websites advertise non-free software</h1>
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<p>
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During Free Software Foundation Europe's <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">pdfreaders.org</a> campaign,
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Free Software activists from 41 countries have reported 2286 public sector institutions which advertise non-free PDF readers on their
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websites. FSFE will now contact these institutions, trying to get as many
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advertisements for non-free PDF readers as possible removed before the end of the year.
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Progress will be documented on the <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html">list of reported institutions</a>.</p>
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"Public bodies are right to try and make things easy for citizens by
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explaining how to open the files on their sites. But by advertising
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non-free software, they're doing citizens a disservice", says Karsten
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Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "Democratic
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governments are supposed to give us freedom, not to drive us into
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dependence on a single software vendor."
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<p>Most versions of the PDF file
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format are <a href="/freesoftware/standards/standards.html">Open Standards</a>, but the
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advertised readers are proprietary. These advertisements help to build a brand
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for the one particular non-free software company. The public sector becomes
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a marketing channel for that company and its products, making it harder
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for <a href="http://www.pdfreaders.org">Free Software PDF readers</a> to gain
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market share.</p>
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<p>"We're frankly astonished at the amount of responses we got", says
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Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Fellowship coordinator. "The number of
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reports we've received show that the problem is endemic across all
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levels of the public sector." In just four weeks, hundreds of activists
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from 41 countries submitted 2286
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<a href="/news/2010/news-20100913-01.html">reports about advertisement for
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non-free software</a> to FSFE. Beside that, already 37 organisations, 45 businesses and
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1418 individuals have signed FSFE's petition asking
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public bodies to remove advertisements for non-free software from
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their websites. "This shows how many people across Europe care about
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software freedom and are willing to get active to help the public
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sector solve its advertising problem", continues Kirschner. </p>
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<p>FSFE encourages public institutions to remove advertisements for non-free
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software from their websites, or at least change their websites so that they no
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longer discriminate against <a
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href="/freesoftware/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a>. In February 2009 <a
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href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">Fellows of FSFE</a> started <a
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href="http://pdfreaders.org/">pdfreaders.org</a>, a website listing Free
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Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. The website also provides
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recommendations based on a range of practical criteria, such as integration
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with the operating system and ease of installation.</p>
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