Talking about current issues, whether for you or others, is useful. But for me, ultimately I am only concerned with how these things effect myself and any family and important friends.
But what have you actually done, besides talk? Want to talk about OpenBSD? When Theo had a problem with NetBSD, he left and founded OpenBSD. He did something. When I found Windows and Linux to suck, I joined OpenBSD a user. I even do a little bit of contributing to ports. Not a lot but some. That is what I am doing. Many years ago, when I found myself undervalued as an employee, instead of whining. I left, starting my own business. As one friend said to me later, Chris, you jumped off the boat into the middle of the ocean and you can't even swim! But I didn't sink either. That is what I did. When I found myself not getting paid on time as a subcontractor for big companies, I didn't complain, I left. I started working directly for the general public. No more problems with getting paid on time and the work was more interesting. Once again I did something. Now I find myself deeply concerned about the economic and abusive behaviour of both the government policies and corporate methods. Crying over my beer won't do anything useful, will it? So now, I am setting up foreign addresses for myself and my father in Guatemala and Mexico. I am also planning on opening small branches of my business in both countries. This will allow me the freedom to make a choice in the future as needed. It will also, right now, give my father a home where his pensions are big enough to live well. Well, I am busy DOING things. You?? Please go DO something. We got your message. Now close you mouth and get on with DOING your own things quietly. If you are this concerned about these issues, then you sure as hell better spend your time DOING something for yourself. As a side note: There is no such thing as a Government. That is just a "model". There are only people who individually decide to do things. If you want to change the way these things are done, you will need to directly deal with this group of people, AS PEOPLE, not as some mythical magic word such as the all powerful "government".
