[ale] Rant[ish]: government and states requiring proprietary software

[Jay Lozier]

On 09/18/2012 05:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Adobe reader runs ok on my feeble netbook with fedora something on it.
> Yes it's a dog and nowhere near FOSS status but it is better to run
> crap on Linux poorly that ever booting into windows.
> OS bigot that I am....
>
Amen on avoiding Windows.
> On Sep 18, 2012 4:44 PM, "mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>"
> <mike at trausch.us <mailto:mike at trausch.us>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/18/2012 09:45 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     > Ah. So get the stupid Adobe reader. Problem Solved.
>
>     Yeah, sure.  Which breaks a whole schload of stuff, and is still at
>     version 9, and is horribly written enough to bring my hexacore system
>     with 8 GB of RAM to its knees.  No, thanks.  It's less resource
>     intensive to boot Windows, sadly.
>
>     > Scribus, a FOSS tool
>     > has a wiki article about how to include Javascript in PDF forms.
>     Or go
>     > yelp at evince for not getting javascript included yet.
>
>     Why would I yelp at the Evince developers to include a "feature"
>     that I
>     don't want in the first place?
>
>     PDF is supposed to be electronic paper -- and anyone who breaks that
>     expectation is a horrible, horrible person.
>
>     JavaScript in PDF docs should be implemented in the same way as
>     for HTML
>     documents: with the possibility to use the document without it.  Or,
>     again, if they want JS, it should be on a Web site, which is where the
>     bloody PDF probably came from in the first place!
>
>             --- Mike
>
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