A bit of context You may remember the first advertisings for the Java language; for me, it was undeniablely linked to the applets, these small applications that I used to be able to run in my NCSA Mosaic browser (or in HotJava) (especially Duke doing
Tag - free software vs proprietary
German pictures under a free license
Recently, Wikimedia Commons (a cousin site of Wikipedia) received as a donation from the German Federal Archives a batch of 100,000 photos free of charge and reusable. After the availability (but here only for consultation, not free pictures) of the
Why do I prefer Acrobat Reader to other free PDF readers?
I prefer to use free applications, as much as possible. But technical value is sometimes a strong enough incentive to switch to proprietary software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Of course, I will give examples to support my claims (pictures down