Greetings,

I am of the opinion that we could do a better job at making our point, why proprietary PDF reader recommendations are undesirable while FS recommendations are OK, than the current model letter does. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that we need 3 model letters, not one: 1) We need a model letter for contacting public organisations. This is the strongest case we have. 2) We need a model letter for contacting organisations that are not public per se, but are socially important, like parties. We can simply make the case that recommending FS would be more beneficial to the citizenry. We have to change our argumentation because such organisations are not tasked with ensuring the liberty of the people. 3) We need a model letter to contact companies. There is no point in tracking bugs on companies' websites, but we can make the case that they could be either helping their competitors, which they should not want to do, or FS would be socially more responsible, and could thus bring them extra customers and positive publicity.

I have opened an Etherpad for developing the letters and I have a new draft that needs extra development to contact public institutions. You can find it at http://pdf.etherpad.fsfe.org/6, the password is WYycrVVzjs, and your input is most welcome. (Be wary: The Etherpad server is having some trouble, so you might want to make a local copy when you start working on it, and then later repaste your modifications into the Etherpad.) I would especially welcome information about European initiatives to prefer FS, and recommendations on cutting down the length while preserving the argumentation. (Simply removing all adjectives is not a proper solution to that problem.) Of course, if we continue to use <strong></strong> properly then the letter can be a bit lengthier than the previous one, but ultimately we would like to keep it as terse and clear as possible.

Cheers,