For some considerable time now, the practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, law and the legal and intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes this initiative also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of what we understand by “political”. This constitutes the field that we have called techno-activism. Along these lines we propose a particular reading of the political challenge that is Free Software from the standpoint of Hardt and Negri’s theoretical work (2000) and we put forward various contributions –regarding the organization, agents and the form of political action- which as we consider, poses a crisis for traditional proposals and urges us to renew our way of relating to information and the exercise of government in our current societies.