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Dear fellows@fsfe,
I am writing you this email to inform you about a complaint I filed to the European Commission that requires Adobe Reader version 8 (and no other version) in its system for research project submission.
I have sent a email to the support system of the MSCA / ECAS
(http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/marie-sklod owska-curie-actions https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas )
of which I send you a copy below for information. I also attach to this email the screenshot of the .pdf that they provide and that is not working in free .pdf on my linux system.
In the hope that helps moving things for the better, All the best, Didier Roche
- -- ========= Didier M. Roche IPSL/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Adresse: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Centre d'Etude de Saclay CEA-Orme des Merisiers, bat. 701 F-91191 GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX
Tel.: +33 (0) 1 69 08 96 52 Didier.Roche@lsce.ipsl.fr
Pasted email request to the EU: (domain is ec.europa.eu)
Dear Support@ECAS,
I write this email to complain about the document format in the submission form: indeed, downloading the administrative .pdf form, I obtained :
The document you are trying to load requires Adobe Reader 8 or higher. You may not have the Adobe Reader installed or your viewing environment may not be properly configured to use Adobe Reader. For information on how to install Adobe Reader and configure your viewing environment please see http://www.adobe.com/go/pdf_forms_configure.
This is a *scandal*, since Adobe Reader 8 DOES NOT EXIST on Linux systems [THE ONLY SYSTEM I HAVE ACCESS TO] and thus we are bound to use other .pdf viewers. Requesting a SPECIFIC VERSION of a proprietary software that only runs on SPECIFIC Operating System is *NOT* an appropriate behavior to provide equal access to all in the submission of funding proposals for the European Research area!!!
This is particularly problematic since MANY .pdf readers exist for all existing Operating Systems, as summarized here for example:
I expect in your answer a *fast* action that will allow me to access, use and register a proposal BEFORE September, 10th, 2015 !!!
Looking forward to hear for a solution, Dr. Didier Roche
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