I work at a company called OneDemocracy.com, where we have a website designed to give like-minded people a place to get together and enact civic change. I realize this is a blatant plug, but beyond self-interest, most of us came to work here with the vision of the internet revolutionizing civic engagement. As the company geek-in-charge and a longtime Slashdot reader, this kind of thing immediately struck a chord: who better to use the internet to enact important changes than the geeks who created it and use it every day?
Broadly defined, people who support the open-source movement are traditionally one of the least organized politically motivated groups, but are also the best positioned to use the internet as a revolutionary tool for change. I think this dichotomy will come to a head sooner rather than later, particularly with the constant assaults on the movement vis a vis DMCA, DeCSS, etc.
So come check out our website, if you want. Or don't. But, we've already send various on-line petitions with thousands or hundreds of thousands of electronic signatures to representatives and congressmen. Maybe it will make a difference.
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Broadly defined, people who support the open-source movement are traditionally one of the least organized politically motivated groups, but are also the best positioned to use the internet as a revolutionary tool for change. I think this dichotomy will come to a head sooner rather than later, particularly with the constant assaults on the movement vis a vis DMCA, DeCSS, etc.
So come check out our website, if you want. Or don't. But, we've already send various on-line petitions with thousands or hundreds of thousands of electronic signatures to representatives and congressmen. Maybe it will make a difference.