El Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:36:26PM -0500, Sid Dabster deia:
*** Proposal for a FLOSS/Linux Political Party ***
I suggest a Linux Party is formed to promote the idea of free software (and possibly related ideas). The last European Election with the patent issue showed the relevance of politics to the free software movement. Voting purely on patents lead to some undesirable alliance partners. While as LUG Radio
what do you mean undesirable alliance partners? The "problem" we have is that we might all agree in some topics (although the small list you give below would probably already raise discrepancies), but a political party has to decide on more than those topics. If we get together because we agree in information policy topics and then we disagree in taxes, social policy, security, foreign policy, common agricultural policy, etc. it wouldn't work.
Political parties join people that have similar views and priorities on individual freedoms, collective freedoms, redistribution of wealth, environment, economic policy, "world order", etc.