Acrobat 3/4/Ghostscript/etc.

[Yaman Akdeniz]

> UKcrypto:  please can we stop whingeing quite so much, and treat the
> files as a (very simple) exercise in cryptanalysis?   If
> public-spirited members of the list wish to provide a
> data-conversion service, that's great!

It should be the duty of the whoever produces a document, especially 
in the case of government departments to maximise the dissemination 
of that piece of information rather than people like myself trying to 
do their job and providing mirror copies or versions that can be read 
by many.

HTML is the most common language as we are all obliged to use a 
browser to download these files and therefore why don't the 
government departments provide an HTML version of their policy 
papers? In addition to HTML, PDF and word would be OK if a government 
department want to provide those formats as well BUT why do the likes 
of Mr Hendon and other government representatives assume that 
concerned Internet users do have ALL use and have access to Adobe and 
Microsoft products ? Why ?

I am not going about the formats here. It is all about securing 
maximum citizen participation in an important debate and the 
government (in this case the Home Office) is not doing its job 
properly andopen government is not about providing fancy documents.


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Mr. Yaman Akdeniz,
Director, Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK)
URL: http://www.cyber-rights.org
E-mail: lawya@cyber-rights.org

Read the CR&CL (UK) Reports at:
http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/ 
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