[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of Germany chooses proprietary software

[Andrew Norton]

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On 7/30/2011 4:01 PM, Boris Turovskiy wrote:
> */this is a trolling post/*
> Ahoi,
> 
> The Pirate Party of Germany has decided to use a proprietary, commercial
> software tool for accounting and member management. After a review of
> all possibilities that software was the only one which conformed to all
> requirements.
> As you can surmise I'm fully supportive of the German Pirate Party
> Board's approach, as I consider a software to be a tool which has to be
> chosen based on its suitability.

I'm with you, Boris. Choosing tools based on ideology, rather than
suitability is like fighting sweatshops by never wearing shoes. It makes
little difference overall, and hurts your ability to perform optimally.

Pirate Parties are *NOT* FOSS-cheerleading orgs, they're freedom, and
progress orgs. That might mean promoting FOSS alternatives at times
(particularly if they're the better option), but when there isn't one,
but there is a non-FOSS method that works perfectly, then use the non-FOSS.

Personally, if non-FOSS is a fair way ahead of the FOSS equivalent, I'm
not going to cripple my ability to do things on ideological grounds.
That's just stupid. Just like the politicians here in the US right now.


Andrew

> However, I know that there are some people in the international Pirate
> movement who see software as a principal issue (invoking terms like
> "freedom" and other utter bullshit), for whom I wish to create this
> thread. They can safely troll here in the knowledge that no0 one takes
> them seriously.
> 
> Best regards,
> Boris
> 
> 
> 
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