Interesting... I haven't read the Mashable article, so I don't have all the context to fully appreciate this. But I can say that I don't advocate stealing! Not sure if that was a metaphor or what, but I wouldn't want to steal a dime from a customer.<p>However, I do have some political issues that are near and dear to my heart; hence my run for Lt. Governor of NC in 2008. But, realistically, I don't want to be a politician and it's near impossible to get elected as a 3rd party candidate anyway. And since I <i>am</i> an unabashed fan of Capitalism, my thinking these days is to launch a startup, try to acquire significant wealth, and then spend that wealth supporting the causes I believe in. Of course I want to do some good along the way, and one way to do that is contributing to Open Source Software (which is something I believe in very strongly as well). So all of our code is freely available, licensed under the APLv2.<p>If the startup ever gets off the ground and we reach a point where it's practical, I'd also like to arrange some (hopefully) mutually beneficial ways to help poor people in rural areas as well, mainly through education. Having grown up dirt poor in a rural area myself, I'm a big believer in the power of education to help people raise themselves up. So going back and arranging for free classes on technology topics, entrepreneurship, etc., would be something I hope to do someday. As you can probably tell, I am big on the "teach a person to fish" vs "give them a fish" thing.