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</div>If I wasn't so dreadfully busy, I'd love to go.<br>
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Sadly, I'm quite busy[1] and I can't really afford to come over for<br>
this.. :(<br>
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I hope you all have a great event!<br>
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Tim<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting. The Pirate Party, however, seems to contradict your view point with respect to free software.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're pro-free software than you must surely be pro-copyright enforcement? After all, the GPL depends on the copyright system in order to be enforceable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In a world where everything is public domain, there is nothing to stop Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etc from incorporating GPL code in their products and selling them without supplying access to the source-code.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, if the Pirate Party were to reduce copyright length on software to five years then I would be well within my rights to re-release my own modifications to the first versions of Ubuntu and sell them just as Apple does today with OSX (which was based on BSD). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Surely you do not support this position?</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, how does the Pirate Party plan to cut the 130 billion deficit? </div><div><br></div><div>How are you going to pay for our pensions? </div>
<div><br></div><div>How are you going to bring our troops home from Afghanistan? </div><div><br></div><div>How are you going to cut crime? </div><div><br></div><div>How are you going to drive up standards in schools? </div>
<div><br></div><div>How are you going to get the couple of million unemployed back to work? </div><div><br></div><div>How are you going to provide affordable housing?</div><div><br></div><div>I think the current copyright arrangement is lopsided, that much is true, but even your flagship policy is internally inconsistent. Your policies on other key issues are none existent.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This election is too important to waste your vote on a party that can't even come up with a sensible policy on the very issue it owes its existence to. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br>
</div><div>Simon.</div></div>