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1st November 2009 - Link Blog

Adobe is Bad for Open Government. The problem isn’t just that PDFs are a bad way of sharing data, it’s that Adobe have been actively lobbying the US government to use their PDF and Flash formats for open government initiatives.

Posted 1st November 2009 at 12:51 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 1st November 2009.

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