FSF Offers Petition to Free the Kindle

The Free Software Foundation is circulating an online petition demanding that Amazon remove DRM and DRM-like features from the Kindle.  Ars Technica has an interesting story on the petition, catalogs the considerations with vendor lock-in, and makes the obvious prediction that the petition will have no effect on Amazon's business model.  As the Google Book Settlement has shown us, the publishers are not going to easily offer concessions to consumers in their rights bundle for e-books.  The petition is here.  The Ars story is here.  [MG]