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<title>Free Software PDF Readers</title>
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<a id="moreinfo" href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">Free Software PDF Readers</a>
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<h1>Let's get rid of non-free PDF advertisement</h1>
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<p class="background">What would you think about a sign on the highway
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saying “You need a Volkswagen to drive on this road. Contact your
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Volkswagen dealer for a gratis test drive – Your Government”?</p>
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<h2>Situation</h2>
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<p>When it comes to software that opens PDF files, many public sector
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organisations do this every day. With the pdfreaders.org campaign we have
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turned the spotlight on government organisations who behave this way,
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exposing how frequent such advertisements for non-free software are. With
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the help of activists across Europe, we are contacting these organisations
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and explain them how to improve their websites so that they respect our
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freedom.</p>
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<h2>PDFreaders.org</h2>
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<p>First FSFE's volunteers created pdfreaders.org. All of the PDF readers on
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pdfreaders.org are Free Software, respecting your basic four freedoms to
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use, study, share and improve them. This gives you control over your
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computer and helps protect your privacy.</p>
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<h2>Contacting public bodies</h2>
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<p>With the help of our Fellows and of hundreds other Free Software
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activists, we have collected over 2000 bug reports (l.fsfe.org/pdfrb). FSFE has sent a letter
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to all the public administrations on our list asking them to either remove
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their advertising for proprietary software or at least run equal
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advertising for Free Software, so that users of their websites realise that
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they have a choice. Currently more than 550 public bodies changed their
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websites accordingly.</p>
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<h2>Petition to remove advertisement for non-free software</h2>
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<p>Our "Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On
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Public Institution Websites" was signed by over 90 organisations, 60
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businesses and 2690 individuals. You can see the list of the signatories at
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l.fsfe.org/pdfrp!</p>
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<h2>What we want to do</h2>
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<p>We will maintain pdfreaders.org. We will continue to contact the remaining
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organisations, and remind them to fix their bugs. Therefore, we will continue to
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improve our documentation how to contact public bodies, as well as
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information how to contact companies.</p>
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<h2>Contact institutions on your own</h2>
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<p>If you discover a page of a public institution or administration that
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advertises non-free software and is not yet or does not appear as resolved on
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the list, do not hesitate to contact them on your own (http://l.fsfe.org/pdfrf). For this
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purpose you can use our model letter (http://l.fsfe.org/pdfrl): just change the address, the
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URL, and the name. Then send it out per mail or post.</p>
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<p>Inform us about the institutions you are contacting, and the progress
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you are making. We will publish the positive results alongside with the
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other reported institutions.</p>
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<address>
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Free Software Foundation Europe<br/>
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Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany<br/>
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Phone: +49-30-27595290<br />
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http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders<br/>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2013-02-18 16:33:32 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2013) $ $Author: mk $</timestamp>
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