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<title>PDFreaders recommended by government - and what else we achived</title>
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<h1>PDFreaders recommended by government - and what else we achived</h1>
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<p> Two weeks have been gone since we launched the PDF Readers fundraising. First,
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we want to thank everyone who made a donation. Currently, we received 856
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EUR (more than 75% of the goal). Thanks to your donation, and you informing
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your friends about this work, we will reach the 1100 EUR until the 4th of
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December. </p>
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<p>What happened beside the fact that 554 administrations fixed the
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advertisement? Some politicians are already working to fix the advertisment for
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non-free software European wide and on the Member State level. </p>
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<p>For example, at the European level, Members of the European Parliament
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submitted parliamentary <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/parliamentary-questions-eu.html"> questions to the Commission </a> to find out where the Commission does this advertisement; why they do so; if they tested their websites with Free Software PDF readers; and how they plan to
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solve the problem for the Commission's own website and the websites of other
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public institutions in the Member States.</p>
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<p>On the national level, the German Green Party made a statement and submitted 18
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questions to the German Federal Government about advertisement of proprietary
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PDFreader software on <a href="http://gruen-digital.de/2012/03/document-freedom-day-kleine-anfrage-zur-werbung-fuer-adobe-reader-eingereicht"> German Federal Government's websites (in German)</a> </p>
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<p>In addition, the German Government is now recommends to use our text snippet
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"to open this PDF file, you need a PDF reader. You can download one of the
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following programs..." in their <a
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href="http://www.cio.bund.de/DE/Architekturen-und-Standards/Migrationsleitfaden-und-Migrationshilfen/migrationsleitfaden_node.html">new
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migration guide</a> (in German) and highlights that there should be no
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advertisement for non-free software readers by public authorities.</p>
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<p>Besides that, since the fundraising started, the number of people supporting
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our <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/petition.html">'Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public
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Institution Websites'</a> has now reached 2481 signatures.</p>
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<p>Once again, thanks for supporting this campaign and for your funding.</p>
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<p>Finally, we would like to suggest everyone to turn off Javascript before you go
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to the <a href="http://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/">donation page</a>. This way, you will avoid to run nonfree
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Javascript code. We apologise for this inconvenience, which is an issue
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related with this platform. Moreover, we have asked the platform managers to
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address this problem, and they agreed to work on this.</p>
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