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That's our Chandler allright

That's our Chandler allright

Posted Jun 2, 2009 18:41 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
In reply to: Okular is doing the right thing by MattPerry
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

> It would be hypocritical of us to expect people to honor our wishes (or licenses that we use for free software) yet not honor the wishes of those who choose to restrict their content.

It would be, unless they are morons. But since the latter is always true, it won't. So the better way to implement this option is to pop up a box saying: "The authors of this PDF don't really want you to copy anything to clipboard. Most probably they like it more when you type it all back yourself, since this is apparently better for your fingers. Would you care to [honor it] [ignore it] [and don't ever show this again!]"


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