Free software is not politics: petitions for the Italian
elections  Free software is not politics: petitions for the
Italian elections     1. be an utter falsity;   2. damage our
ability to advocate.   The first is aimed at voters: they are
asked to sign an online petition. Voters are asked to declare
they will vote for candidates who declare that they will promote
free software.  The second is aimed at candidates, who are asked
to sign a document. By signing this document they commit
themselves to promote and vote laws that, among other things, 1)
will bind the civil service to free software and open formats,
and 2) declare practices that limit citizens' freedoms (such as
the infamous Trusted Computing) as illegitimate.  A list of the
parties that have at least one candidate signing the document is
available, along with the parties that don't have any.  This is
an initiative that every national free software association
should replicate when their election time comes!  A few
references about Trusted Computin