First, read this article. Second, are there plans to build support for this format into Ubuntu? For example, print to file support, support from Evince, etc.
It acts exactly like a PDF, but you can't print it out. "Decide for yourself which of your documents don't need printing -- and save them as WWF," the wildlife organisation suggests. – Wired
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Whilst I am unable to find any example documents to test my theory with, the website says:
I suspect that ultimately Evince (the default PDF reader in Ubuntu) can already read these files. If you can get your hands on a
.wff, try renaming it to.pdf, or right click and try Open With "Document Viewer".Support for the format would probably be fairly easy to implement in Evince, but I can't see anyone having much desire to do to. Two reasons for this:
What is not that unlikely to emerge is "support" for opening these files, but no restrictions on printing.... which kinda defeats the point.
If someone made plans to write code which precludes your ability to do what you choose with data under Linux, someone else would write code that liberates said data. So the question is somewhat moot.
This seems more like a publicity ploy by the creators than anything that could possibly catch on as in:
This scenario rests on the assumption that the document sender is intending to communicate something other than "I should like to control your actions because it will make you a better person" which is both rude and self defeating. I'm all for forests and other living things, but have no patience for people that would compel me to act according to their moral imperatives. (It may be worth noting that I print very, very little as I have yet to find a way to grep through a pile of paper).
Does the trick.
Kills the protection again.