[pp.int.general] An answer to RMS' critique of the PP.SE political programme

[Egil Moeller]

I am not sure either, but Stallmans' arguments are good, and to be
honest, this discussion is very similar to the age-old one between the
BSD and GPL camps.

My post was mainly meant to do two things:

1. Show that this approach is feasable withing the current Swedish legal
framework, without breaking any international treatise and that it would
have advantages even w/o a reformed copyright

2. Stir the pot a bit; PP's been way to quiet about Free Software too
long; this is even more evident to those who've seen the PP.SE techincal
systems from close up -  while all new systems are FOSS, the first
systems where set up using MS technologies, and are still running that
way...

>
> I do NOT agree that more needs to be done to protect Free software.
> The pirate party's existing policies, if enacted, would be completely
> devastating to the proprietary software companies and make them no
> threat at all to Free software.
>
> I have always asserted that MSFT's anti-copying features are weak by
> design, to make copying Windows 'inconvenient' rather than impossible.
> If they were to release a truly unbreakable anti-copying system the
> vast majority of users of 'pirated' software and many paid users also
> would switch to Free software in a fairly short time.
>
> For all practical effect, DRM with any weakness is the same as no DRM
> if it's legal to find the weakness and share software that breaks it,
> so if the Pirate Party succeeds in removing anti-circumvention laws
> this would leave MSFT with only two options; "Unbreakable DRM" which
> drives away much of their userbase, or no DRM at all. If we succeed
> with a no-drm policy then they have no option.
>
> Do we really need to see their source code as well? I do not think so.
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