Hello Mark, hello Martijn,
* Mark Lamers mark@marklamers.nl [2011-07-10 22:20:20 +0200]:
Martijn points out that with this text the emphasis is on advertising non-free software. He suggests that should be: "recommending just one piece of software, and suggesting no alternatives."
I have not internet access at the moment (sitting at the aiport in Sao Paulo), so I can not yet check the etherpad. Is is based on the model letter which is linked from the button of http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfraders?
The goal of this campaign the public administrations is not, that _they_ start using a Free PDFreader. The goal is that they remove non-free advertisement from their websites. With PDFreaders.org we show them, that there are other vendor neutral readers. If they want to point their users to Free Software, they can do so. But they should definetely not do advertisement for one company.
The letter also is a tool to inform the public administration about Free Software and Open Standards, so they already heard about that and about FSFE. This way it will be easier for people to talk with them about Free Software, as they already heard about it before.
I hope that explained it better. If you have any further questions I am happy to help (please include pdfreaders@lists.fsfe.org in your reply, too).
Thanks a lot that you follow up on the bugs in the Netherlands!
Best Regards, Matthias