[pp.int.general] EC consultations: will we give this time a joint answer?

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/3/25, Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <rick at piratpartiet.se>:

> I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Hi Rick, hi everyone,

I'm really busy these days so I can't really pay attention to
everything that goes through the mailinglist (this is only temporarily
but I don't really have any other choice, unfortunately)...

You may remember that things are a bit difficult in France, as an
hostile fork of the Parti Pirate keeps pretending that we do not exist
:(

I've just been warned by some members of the Parti Pirate (MaryPoppins
among others, who feels a bit discouraged as you may have noticed)
that our competitors have double-crossed us concerning the
EC-consultation; of course, we would actually be happy for them -- the
only problem is that they keep signing with the same name as us,
therefore maintaining a disturbing confusion.

Because of this confusion, some of us tend to get fed up, as they
interpret such moves as different ways to deny our existence and/or
legitimacy.

I could develop in detail the differences between these two distincts
movements, but that is obviously french-only business. I'm just hoping
that someday we can address this issue. What is more annoying is that
in the meantime, we are actually sending mixed signals to the public
(and that, unfortunately, includes you guys at the PPI).

Having carefully read the PDF document Carlos shared with us, I can't
say that we agree on everything that is said. This "other" Parti
Pirate has obviously different orientations and different ideas than
ours -- once again that would be fine, if these guys weren't
pretending to be us...

I hate to put the PPI in such an ackward position. However, perhaps
you'll understand how baffled, discouraged we can be -- not to
mention, at some times, *really* pissed.

Carlos: thanks for mentioning the RFID consultation; we had completely
forgotten about it; thanks to you we'll write something on time --
actually this concerns us at most.

Cheers,
Valentin