Journal twitter's Journal: Adobe Stoops to Button Spam. 9
A small brew ha ha is going on over Adobe/Kinko/FedEx button spam in new versions of Acrobat and Reader.
Little more than two weeks after Adobe's announcement, the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) and its sister organization, The National Association of Quick Printers (NAQP), fired off a letter to Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen, expressing their concern over the prominently-displayed FedEx button. The letter was backed by more than 7,000 printing and graphics companies, including quick printing franchises like Speedy and The Allegra Network.
"The advantage gained by FedEx Kinko's through this agreement with Adobe comes at the expense of the many other printers...who have played such a pivotal role in establishing Adobe as the defacto standard among many end users for reading documents and printing file submission," the NAPL-NAQL letter continued. "Many of our member companies have, with the encouragement of Adobe, actively promoted the use of Adobe Acrobat products - and a PDF workflow - with their clients."
Promotion of non free software always caries this risk because there's no honor among theives. Perhaps the printers should have promoted dvi instead. It's not too late for them to promote free software. Since moving to gnu/linux seven years ago, I've gotten used to everything having ps and pdf output and now consider downloading Adobe software an unreasonable chore.
Yes! (Score:2)
I mean, imagine what would happen if, say, Mozilla put a search box in the top right hand corner of Firefox which let people search on Google - and every time someone used it, Google would pay Mozilla for it. They could even put other partners up there and get paid for those too. I mean, there would be a scandal like no other! Free software advocates would flock away from it in their droves!
How strange it would be to live in that fanta [calacanis.com]
No! (Score:2)
Clueless and proud Windoze user, Macthorpe [slashdot.org] again tries to compare Apples to Oranges:
I mean, imagine what would happen if, say, Mozilla put a search box in the top right hand corner of Firefox which let people search on Google
Imagine if Adobe Reader was free software and any distributor could compile any service that they wanted to and release it with a different name like nIceReader. Imagine that everyone just loved FedEx anyway and followed their example willingly, so that you would find the same thi
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Of course the problem is they don't either way, and so Firefox gets $30 million from Google. The fact that some people "love" Google is irrelevant - a crapload of people still use MSN and Yahoo. So by definition th
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No surprise. (Score:2)
Damn, you beat me to posting exactly what I was going to say -
Well Macthorpe, if you are not actually dedazo you are reading from the same M$ PR sheet. Neither of you idiots is worth what Bill Gates pays you.
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It's much easier to say that than come up with facts, isn't it?
Sure they can. (Score:2)
Imagine if you could realize the differences between developers, integrators and end users. I figure that the same users you so proudly claim are "victimized" by Microsoft's application and OS defaults would of course be perfectly capable of changing the same things in applications like Firefox.
User don't have to compile anything. I'm sure those "crapload" of users who want it can find a distribution that uses something other than Google as a default search engine. Free software is easy enough to compi
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Don't let that stop you whining, though.
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Who said anything about "compiling"?
Jesus christ, how about you try to read what I write, for a change?