Here in Canada the white hat Linux hacker community is political in a real sense. Three examples: They have successfully gotten the Green Party of Canada to adopt open source and free software as a policy platform. One local hacker/open source business person, Russell McOrmund has spent about two years now attending Canada's copyright reform hearings in Parliament and given testimony. Here is Russell's LinkedIn page http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6112318 Our Chief Technology Officer in the public service promotes and investigates using Linux and other GNU open source free softwares. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org