[pp.int.general] Italian Pirate Party - Scandal

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:

>     Not really going into the question who is responsible and all that -
> that
>     is important of course - but I think the most important question here
> is -
>     do we insist that there should be only one pirate party per country?
>  There
>     are many ways for people to disagree and we should somehow be prepared
> for
>     this.
>
> If the aim is to win elections, it is self-defeating
> to have pirates running against pirates.  The custom is to
> have a primary election to choose the candidate.
>
> Possibly - but forking projects is pretty effective in software - why not
in politics?

This fight for the 'pirate brand' and trying to exclude each other from
being part of the greater pirate movement is quite poisonous.


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