There is always the need for somebody to stand up as the opposing side to those who seek to build their business on abusive practices such as vendor lock-in or

There is always the need for somebody to stand up as the opposing side to those who seek to build their business on abusive practices such as vendor lock-in or DRM. The FSF is that voice, and it's a more important role than ever. For example, the FSF has long warned of the dangers of DRM, and in recent years these warnings have proved themselves prescient now that we have things like Amazon remotely wiping Kindles on a whim and deleting objectionable books. More recently, the FSF has begun making a lot of noise about the dangers of SecureBoot. Will the wider developer community disregard these warnings as the ravings of irrelevant zealots? Based on past observations, I certainly hope not.