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

[piratska partija]

It's about the message that party sends. Of course it's not closing the
choice  area. That should be balanced political decision. period.

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 7/30/2011 4:51 PM, piratska partija wrote:
> > I have to say that decisions like this are dangerous and erode the
> > consistency of ideology. Also we should check the info since the post
> > has been made in the name of trolling.
>
> What ideology? This isn't the Free Software Foundation. Since there's no
> ideology requiring FOSS software in the pirate party stuff, then it
> can't violate ideological purity, and thus political correctness.
>
> Unless I've missed something major, one of the things the Pirate Party
> is NOT, is a FOSS pressure group.
>
> >
> > cheerz
> >
> > 2011/7/30 Rok Andrée <rok.andree at piratskastranka.net
> > <mailto:rok.andree at piratskastranka.net>>
> >
> >     Gonna have to agree with Boris and Andrew.
> >
> >     Beeing opensource/free(as in freedome) gives software extra points
> >     but it does not disqualify nonfree software.
> >
> >     Lp
> >     Rok Andrée
> >     Blagajnik -Treasurer
> >     Piratska stranka Slovenije - Slovenian Pirate Party
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 30 July 2011 22:26, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> > --
> > -
> > Aleksandar Blagojevi? aka blaeks
> > former PPI board member
> >
> >
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Aleksandar Blagojević aka blaeks
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