An article in Linux.com comments (approvingly) on the evolution of the Free Software Foundation "into an openly activist organization, reaching out to its supporters and encouraging their participation in civic campaigns often designed to enlist non-hackers in their causes."

The most important of these causes: "Both the BadVista and Defective By Design campaigns will continue, and . . . other campaigns in the coming year will probably focus on hardware drivers for GNU/Linux and software patents."

"Defective By Design" is a code for opposition to all forms of Digital Rights Management, so, combined with the assault on patents, the FSF is pretty clearly declaring its political opposition to basic concepts of using property rights and markets to encourage and distribute the products of creativity.

Content companies take note. FSF not a bunch of programmers who simply want to protect their right to cooperate in software production without having their products appropriated; it is a far more aggressive political movement.