I just love the pretensions to greatness that Stallman has. Consider today's bleat from him:

Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and the rest, offer you software that gives them power over you. A change in executives or companies is not important. What we need to change is this system.

That's what the free software movement is all about. "Free" refers to freedom: we write and publish software that users are free to share and modify.

No, that would be a license like the MIT or BSD. The GPL, which Stallman champions, is as handcuffing in its own way as any of the proprietary licenses he rails against. There is such a thing as "golden handcuffs", and Stallman would have us all wearing them. No thanks.

Hat tip Rob Fahrni.