I can't talk about other Pirate Parties because I don't know them that
well, but the Spanish Pirate Party's Statutes, says, on Article 2:
Scope and Aims:<br>
<br>
2.8) We'll work with the aim that the public administrations use free,
and not privative, software, documentation and standards, not only in
the aim of technological neutrality, but also with the aim that the
public administrations can guarantee the safety and privacy of all the
sensible information about citizens that they have at their disposal.<br>
<br>
This is a fast translation, I'm sure it has many mistakes. You can read here (in spanish) our statutes :<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.partidopirata.es/wiki/Estatutos">http://www.partidopirata.es/wiki/Estatutos</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Richard M. Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"> The seeds for that<br>
ideology were sown many years before Rick founded the first Pirate<br>
Party, back when the Open Source movement was born,<br>
<br>
</div>Are you thinking about 1983, when I founded the free software<br>
movement? Or are you thinking about 1998, when open source split off<br>
from the free software movement?<br>
<br>
The free software movement aims to win freedom for computer users,<br>
based on ethical ideas similar to those of the pirate party.<br>
<br>
The whole point of open source was to STOP talking about freedom and<br>
stop criticizing proprietary software in ethical terms. (As a<br>
consequence, open source is not really a movement in the same sense.)<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html</a> for more<br>
explanation about the difference between the two.<br>
<br>
It would seem to me that the Pirate Party is closer at heart<br>
to the free software movement than to open source.<br>
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