[free-sklyarov] A constructive form of protest

[ca2027001 at sneakemail.com]

I have been thinking the exact same thoughts. There would 
be a certain amount of satisfaction to "killing" a 
particular format. You would have to write a cross platform/windows program. I'm not much of a programmer, 
but I could help with the beta testing.

The only question - is the pdf encoder covered by 
patents?? anyone know??

I have been giving much thought to this. There needs to 
be an organization that goes beyond the list serv that 
consists of people who are willing to spend their time, 
money, and resources to fight bad law and bad 
corporations.

Bob wrote;
. I note that this is a constructive 
> (literally) form of protest. Moreover is is one that 
> an international team of programmers could work upon.
> Many of the traditional forms of protest, depending as
> they do on physical presence, do not have this quality. 
> Perhaps we could use the boycottadobe website as a 
> home base. 
> 
> So some questions. 
> 
> Does anyone out there have a good handle on the existing 
> status of free pdf software? 
> 
> Second, would any of you be interested in helping to 
> organize such a protest/project or joining some existing
> project with this intent?