Re: [Fsfe-uk] Stalls at Marxism 2003

[Alex Hudson]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 14:22, Chris Croughton wrote:
> > I think the anti-capitalist / anti-globalization movement is pretty 
> > sussed about Free Software - the net is very important to it, and 
> > indymedia's content management system has gone gpl 
> > (http://mir.indymedia.org/)
> 
> Please note that many of us who are supporters of free software are
> /not/ anti-capitalist nor against 'globalisation' (at least some
> definitions of it, it's a term which tends to be defined differently by
> everyone who uses the term).

I'm not sure he was necessarily saying that, more the other way around -
that it's likely that 'those types' would be inclined to be supportive
of Free Software, rather than that supporting Free Software makes you
more likely to be 'one of them'.

AFFS is, of course, entirely non-political in those terms - we'd pretty
much talk Free Software anywhere, unless it would be detrimental to our
profile overall. I suspect, as you suggest, that the idea of Free
Software fits into a number of political ideologies, so we have to be
pretty agnostic IMO. I think I can probably say that we don't talk about
ourselves being a socialist organisation or some such, no matter what
the views of the committee/members/etc.

Cheers,

Alex.

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