[tex-live] movie15 and media9

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sun Mar 18 15:15:57 CET 2012


On So, 18 Mär 2012, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> to install the free Adobe Acrobat reader [1].  There is no possible
> reason for them not to do so other than prejudice or dogma.

* horrible security history
* "phoning home" javascript
* what else do you want ???

Using acro* is simply wrong, and energy should be invested in improving
open source viewers, not preaching for a horrible dangerous and privacy
ignoring product.

If you are not aware of that, please read http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/
or any of the hundreds of other resources clearly explaining how evil
acrobat really is.

Best wishes

Norbert
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