[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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