Simon Willison on Nostr: OK, help me out here. Is there some aspect of human society that I'm not ...

OK, help me out here. Is there some aspect of human society that I'm not understanding, where information is considered more official/trustworthy if it's presented as a PDF report and not as a web page?

Today's frustration is this report from npub1n702fwc8fhzsuff296qxsywjpxw2g84x5j7dahk9utjgthage7pqd2qpfe (npub1n70…qpfe) about Delayed Open Source Publication - a fascinating document, but why is it a PDF?

https://opensource.org/delayed-open-source-publication