There's a collective of quixotic Mexican software developers and users that is quite active. I wonder why is it that FSF's philosophy with its exhortation to vi

There's a collective of quixotic Mexican software developers and users that is quite active. I wonder why is it that FSF's philosophy with its exhortation to viciously defend freedom resonates so well in some parts of Mexico. It was those groups, which congregate on the Hackmitin[1], Hacklab Autónomo[2] and Rancho Electrónico[3] that helped Jacobo Nájera with his legal proceedings against Secure Boot. I went a couple of times to the Hacklab. It's an interesting place. At the time, it looked like they were squatting in an abandoned building and they looked like Hollywood hacker stereotypes. If it weren't for the proliferation of hardware with Debian and Trisquel logos, their appearance make you would think these were just ordinary anarchist punks. In a way, that's what they are, except they are technoanarchist punks, and obviously not completely anarchist as they know how to work with the legal system. They were very left-leaning, distrustful of all corporations, completely aligned with FSF philosophy; radical, feminist, and fiercely protective of their rights. I rather miss that scene. I haven't found quite something like it here in Canada. I hope Nájera manages to get somewhere, but it seems like a hopeless fight against MSFT, the one that is really ensuring that installing the OS of your choice is impossible. The whole "security" thing is a sideshow; the real goal here with "Secure" Boot is to make it harder to install unlicensed copies of Windows. --- [1] http://hackmitin.espora.org/ http://hackmitin.espora.org/ ("mitin" in Spanish is from English "meeting" but has left-leaning political connotations such as protests and marches.) [2] http://hacklab.espora.org/ http://hacklab.espora.org/ [3] http://ranchoelectronico.org/ http://ranchoelectronico.org/