I can definitely respect that point of view. My view is that people need to play their strengths. Personally my ability as a programmer is stronger than my ab

I can definitely respect that point of view. My view is that people need to play their strengths. Personally my ability as a programmer is stronger than my ability as a political activist. So I choose to donate my time to free software and my money to the EFF. I also choose to invest my money in companies that have a proven progressive stance on patents and copyright (ex: Red Hat [1, 2]). The only direct political thing I do is vote. Everything else is by proxy. [1] http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html [2] http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/red-hat-files-new-brief-software-patent-case http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/red-hat-files-new-...