So, Felton, California has declared "Lindependence Day." The idea, which took weeks of town meetings to prepare, has the city's citizens going proprietary software-free for a week.
Yahoo.
In the meantime, hundreds of millions of people are slowly being acclimated to open-source software via Firefox, Adium, TiVo, and other open-source software (or open-source software-based) applications. Which do you think is more likely to result in a revolution?
Open source won't win through rallies and petitions. It will win as it becomes better and better, such that normal people want to use it. I tricked out my mom's Firefox browser this weekend and she's so excited about the installation of Forecastfox, Adblock Plus, and other things that I think the odds of her going back to Internet Explorer are next to nil.
This is how open source wins. One person at a time, one application at a time.