I have been to a few of his talks and I do generally agree with everything he says and stands for.
I feel he is definitely fighting a loosing battle though. Not only is closed source software more common than ever but now we have extremely invasive and short sighted DRM, such as, online activation and soon, "always online" activation.
I don't 100% agree with the defectivebydesign.org goals (which he is a big part of) since they seem to be more focussed on getting "free" music and video running on a few consumer devices like iOS and Kindle which seems a bit counter productive when there are billions of open devices (i.e the x86 personal computer) that are still subject to DRM software.
I wish I could help out more and I wish Stallman was more successful but... Damn! There are just too many idiots in this world.
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