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

[Rok Andrée]

We (the slovenian PP) have the same opinion as far as FLOSS in tax funded
organisations goes. But we add the words "whenever possible". If
you don't have a good alternative, you cant use an alternative, that's just
banging your had through the wall. But we whould encourage the creation of a
FLOSS alternative/replacement.

As boris said, software is a tool and it's FLOSS status is just one of it's
attributes. When deciding what to use you have to way all attributes. By
ignoring other attributes for the sake of one you're
just crippling your self and being and idiot.

Lp
Rok Andrée
Blagajnik - Treasurer
Piratska stranka Slovenije - Slovenian Pirate Party



On 30 July 2011 23:13, Mirco da Silva <
mirco.da.silva at piracy-international.org> wrote:

> Am 30.07.2011 22:54, schrieb Andrew Norton:
>
> > Unless I've missed something major, one of the things the Pirate Party
> > is NOT, is a FOSS pressure group.
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> maybe you missed this:
>
> The german PP decided to be an "FLOSS pressure group "and demands FLOSS
> and open standards for every taxmoney-sponsored organisation and all of
> their contents in their political agenda:
>
> http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Programm#Offene_Standards
> http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Programm#Freie_Software
>
> Well, the german PP IS an taxmoney-sponsored organisation that takes
> hundred of thousands of taxpayer euros.
>
> Some may call it pragmatism, under the current (german) circumstances
> for me its just well known hipocrisy.
>
> cheers,
> mirco
>
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