Who speaks for the community?

Who speaks for the community?

It strikes me that the voice of our community in government and such is likely to come not from our present community, but from politicians becoming users. We've started to see some adoption, but we haven't gotten to the point where government officials are interested in Linux and want to know what they can do to help. And what these people can do is lobby.

What would be really interesting is if major lobbying groups started running their businesses on Linux. Then the groups that aren't paid to care one way or the other about freedom to write software are suddenly very much in favor of it as users, and they're large and well-connected.