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

[Jay Emerson]

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

Oh lord if that don't define the USPP's troubles accurately lol

One day soon I'll be get off Elba....
On Sep 25, 2012 8:55 AM, "Zbigniew Łukasiak" <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>> --
>> 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 Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
>>
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> Zbigniew Lukasiak
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