[pp.int.general] PPI GA Prague / Video Conference System for remote delegates

[Richard Stallman]

    audio+video system that shows the live streams from
    not-on-site-attendants at the event is much preferred as it helps with the
    feeling of cooperation and inclusion.

If the party wants to be inclusive, it should not exclude idealistic
free software supporters.

This is not a matter of whether the Pirate Party should use free
software, or campaign for free software.  You would have the Pirate
Party campaign against free software and pressure people into using
nonfree software.

    (installing flash, using it and uninstalling it really isn't that big of
    a deal. *Free Software is a vision not a religion.

It is an ethical necessity.  Free software is the software that
respects the users' freedom.  Some people will decline to participate
in the event rather than surrender their freedom in order to
participate.

Others might decline to participate because they do not like the
contemptuous attitude that sneers at people who hold to their
principles.

Others may violate their principles in order to participate, and in
the process get used to violating principles.  The result will be
a Pirate Party that doesn't stick to its principles.

     Holding to your ideals
    at all costs is counter productive. Be flexible.)*

On the contrary, holding to ideals is absolutely necessary if the goal
is to realize those ideals.  I think it was Gandhi who said, "You must
be the change you hope to see in the world."

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/