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<html newsdate="2010-12-17">
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<head>
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<title>172 public institutions removed non-free advertisement</title>
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<body>
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<h1>172 public institutions removed non-free advertisement</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">Only one month after the letters for the PDFreaders campaign of FSFE
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were sent, 172 public institutions have removed advertisements for proprietary
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PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding were the responses
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from <a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.html#HR">Croatia</a>, <a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.html#RU">Russia</a> and <a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.html#SI">Slovenia</a>. In Croatia almost all reported institutions deleted the advertisement. Half of those contacted in Russia and Slovenia fulfilled FSFE's
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request.</p>
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<p>"Several institutions replied stating that they agree with <a
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href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.html">our concerns</a>, and that they will
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modify their websites", said campaign manager Matthias Kirschner. Amongst those
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are a number of ministries, parliaments, law enforcement agencies, and the
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Belgian Prime Minister's chancellery.</p>
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<p>Campaigns like this are made possible by a <a
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href="http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/index.en.html">community of
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volunteers</a>, and <a
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href="http://www.fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html">financial supporters</a>.
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FSFE is following-up with the <a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.html">
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remaining organisations</a> in order to get the remaining advertisements
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removed.</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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</tags>
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</html>
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