FSFE support for Pirate Party at EU Election on Free Software?

[Karun]

Personally i was not very impressed by the German pirate party. In any case there are more policies to consider and not only free software in choosing whom to vote for.

-- 
 Karun 
 kdambiec at fsfe.org


On Mon, 13 May 2019, at 8:04 PM, Max Mehl wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> ~ Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists [2019-05-12 19:44 +0200]:
> > i'm supporting Pirate Party (in Italy) for EU Election, i'm a strong
> > free software advocate, and in the common european pirate party program
> > 
> > (the same program in 9 EU states), there's a clear commitment on Free
> > Software and the use/production of Free Software by Public
> > Administration (100% in line with the campaign public code, public
> > money).
> 
> That reads good, thanks for the pointer! It is motivating to see that
> more and more parties and decision-makers are picking up our goals and
> arguments for Public Money, Public Code and Free Software in general.
> 
> > I would love to see FSFE to support that point of the program of PP
> > publicly, calling for all free software communities across europe to
> > support that trough their own communities.
> > 
> > https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=programme:ceep2019#free_software
> > 
> > Is that something that has been considered?
> 
> One of the FSFE's principles is to be non-partisan. That is easier said
> than done, because at the same time we don't want to generally leave
> positive (or negative) developments of political parties and actors
> uncommented.
> 
> However, asking our community to support a specific party because of a
> positive position towards Free Software will most probably cross the
> line. Therefore, I am afraid that we cannot follow your suggestion. But
> since we sensitise people about Free Software and the importance of
> publicly funded software to be public code, it is likely that they will
> also consider parties' positions on this topic during an election.
> 
> Best,
> Max
> 
> 
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> 
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