Raw thoughts: Open Technology Vision for sake of all Humanity

Open source is software that open and free for use and change by anyone, it can work or be adapted to work almost on any piece of hardware. Open source projects are made upon thousands of work hours of experts, all over the world, with ideological idea that technology could be shared to promote the humanity as whole. A few examples: UNIX, GNU, Linux, Wikipedia, Android, Firefox, OpenOffice and many many others. Nowadays we are living in era of prosper for open source idea, any individual can create something that seemed impossible before. Today we are sitting on the shoulders of giants, and we almost can touch the sky. But I think that we can progress even further with open source ideology. A few ideas I have on that matter:

1. Why don’t we legislate laws to make any piece of software, to be available as open source, for sake of humanity, after some period of time? But I don’t think that this period of time should be more then 10 years, because of huge progress in technology. Basically same idea as patents registrations.
2. To apply open source ideology on hardware, and any other aspect of technology like chemistry and biology, and maybe even on all the knowledge we have? Of course our private knowledge shouldn’t be included, for example diaries ( And maybe it should? Deserve a debates… ) , but almost anything else should.
3. Limit the period of time in which royalties required to be paid due to patent, and limit creators rights ownership time. I don’t understand why we let record labels own the creator rights that should belong to singers, writers and composers, and not to the record labels. I am not even sure, why should we allow patents and creators rights to be sold or inherited, and be used by huge companies to collect money for basically nothing, without helping somehow to the creation process itself. To me all these laws seems as legislated for already very powerful and rich elements in our society, and for them alone, in very injustice and illogical way, and they don’t helping or promoting somehow the society. These laws are taxes for true parasitism, why don’t we change them?

Is it about socialism vs capitalism? It seems to me that both of them failed in execution, in their pure forms. For example communistic USSR, where I was born and lived for 7 years, everything belonged to the state. Almost everybody was having roughly the same salary, of course the people with more connections got more. And people with more power got exponentially more than common people. But this system was wrong and deeply corrupted. Today I can compare this regime, with the one that I’m living in today, Israeli, which is much more capitalistic, and largely very similar to the US. It’s flawed and corrupted too, in different but also somehow similar manner. In a way, that already rich people, that own most of the companies at state, have a huge influence over politicians, and eventually force legislation in their favor. So the wealth going from poor and middle class people to tycoons. Each year we pay more for having less, and government just preserves the inequality. So we need to think logically, what can promote us as human society, to be better, as whole and as better place for each and single individual. Technology and knowledge should belong to everyone, and not just to the people who can bribe the politicians.