On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:09 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > Any disuse of acroread is a purely meta-boycott: nobody pays adobe for > > that software. > > Or just a preference for free-as-in-liberty software, which acroread is > not. > > Craig
i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux exemplifies. in any case, xpdf works just fine. bookmarks are redundant since any information in a pdf file that i need to quote or reproduce in any format or context can be printed from xpdf. sklyarov's case deserves support, and, if i'm not going to support adobe as an act of support to their victim, that has to include a blanket rejection of anything they have to offer. i see no lack of validity in a "purely meta-boycott."
