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Stallman is one of my biggest inspirations. It's nice that there was a guy who was right about so much for so long when the vast majority of people around him were wrong. I don't think he's right about everything, but he's right about most things. I think he could go further in some ways. For example, I think copyright and patent laws should die.
Stallman doesn't want anything like that. The GPL for example wouldn't work without copyright.
What Stallman wants is software patents do be illegal (you can patent your new garden hose as much as you like) and copyright should be returned to what it was, a much shorter term. It's supposed to give a time limited monopoly on a work in order to make sure the author is encouraged to create new works frequently. Instead it has become a gravy train for life plus a huge number of years after the authors death.
It should return to 5 or 10 years.