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Valentin Villenave wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2008/8/23 Richard M. Stallman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rms@gnu.org"><rms@gnu.org></a>:
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html</a>.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I don't know if Rick will agree on this, but I have the feeling this
paper could have been writing by one of us "Pirates".</pre>
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I would most certainly agree, and I'm confident that Rick would as well.<br>
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This is exactly what the copyright fight is all about, and I think
RMS's text explains the issue brilliantly.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think we'll talk more about that with Carlos, but I have to say that
both the 2006 declaration and the Uppsala declaration are important
basis to work on, and that elaborating longer, more developed
documents does not necessarily means forgetting the previous one --
that is, when you personally have enough time to work with the group
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I agree with this as well, including the part about actually having the
time to do the work.<br>
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I think Carlos is right when he says that a European Pirate Manifesto
that allows every single pirate party to look at it and say proudly
"this is my manifesto" is a good thing, if and when we can agree on
one. However, if it turns out that we need more time to come up with
such a manifesto, I see no particular harm in putting that work on the
back burner for a while. <br>
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Right now, it is less than 10 months to the European Parliament
election, which means that we will probably want to focus most of our
energy on that, in each of the individual member states.<br>
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The way I see it we are already sufficiently agreed on what constitutes
the pirate ideology to be able to speak with conficence about a united
international pirate movement. This is a good thing, and something we
can all use in our respective national campaigns in whatever way is
useful in each individual member state.<br>
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I think we all agree in what direction legislation in Europe should
move in order to promote freedom. This is good. The focus now should be
to get into the European Parliament from as many member states as
possible. Once we have achieved that, we can really start to make
things happen in the political debate in Europe.<br>
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/Christian<br>
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Christian Engström
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