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 [email protected] 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 > > > PS: For similar requests, we recommend contacting us directly using > [email protected]. That makes it easy to distribute your request directly > to the people who know most about a specific topic. > > -- > Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe > Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl > Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All > participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: > https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
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