<p>"This fight for the 'pirate brand' and trying to exclude each other from being part of the greater pirate movement is quite poisonous."</p>
<p>Oh lord if that don't define the USPP's troubles accurately lol</p>
<p>One day soon I'll be get off Elba....</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2012 8:55 AM, "Zbigniew £ukasiak" <<a href="mailto:zzbbyy@gmail.com">zzbbyy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org" target="_blank">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div> Not really going into the question who is responsible and all that - that<br>
is important of course - but I think the most important question here is -<br>
do we insist that there should be only one pirate party per country? There<br>
are many ways for people to disagree and we should somehow be prepared for<br>
this.<br>
<br>
</div>If the aim is to win elections, it is self-defeating<br>
to have pirates running against pirates. The custom is to<br>
have a primary election to choose the candidate.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Possibly - but forking projects is pretty effective in software - why not in politics?</div><div><br></div><div>This fight for the 'pirate brand' and trying to exclude each other from being part of the greater pirate movement is quite poisonous.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><font color="#888888">
--<br>
Dr Richard Stallman<br>
President, Free Software Foundation<br>
51 Franklin St<br>
Boston MA 02110<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call<br>
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