Hi FSFE,
A victory at Sheffield City Council (see below)!
Cheers,
Simon
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WebManager WebManager@sheffield.gov.uk Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM Subject: RE: References to Adobe To: Simon Linskill simon.linskill@gmail.com
Hi Simon
Thank you for your email.
In the interests of fairness I've removed all links to Adobe.
Cheers Ian
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------------------------------ *From:* Simon Linskill [mailto:simon.linskill@gmail.com] *Sent:* 06 January 2011 11:15 *To:* WebManager *Subject:* References to Adobe
Hi there,
I've noticed that Sheffield City Council's website contains references to Adobe's Acrobat pdf reader. As pdf is an ISO standard, public sector institutions should not be giving free advertising to one company. Here are three examples:
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/council-tax/what-you-pay/appeals-against-banding http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/council-tax/if-you-dont-pay-on-time/recovery-pol... http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/safe--sound/social-services/your-care-record/con...
An alternative link to a list of free alternatives (that are not encumbered by patents, and follow open standards) can be found at the link below:
http://pdfreaders.org/index.en.html
Many thanks,
Simon
Carrington Road Sheffield
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