Showing posts with label consumer activists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer activists. Show all posts

29 July 2006

Time to Get Political: Top Down, Bottom Up

A couple of weeks back I wrote a piece for Linux Journal suggesting that top coders might start using some of their increasing influence outside computing to start talking directly with those in power in an attempt to change political agendas directly.

Now here's an interesting complementary suggestion: that supporters of free software should become consumer activists, and try to influence things from the bottom up.