I used to take it for granted that my concept of Free Software was the main or default concept, but now I've come to realize that I'm an iconoclastic weirdo. A

I used to take it for granted that my concept of Free Software was the main or default concept, but now I've come to realize that I'm an iconoclastic weirdo. Anyway, just to get it out there, this is what [I think] should happen: A small group of really really good programmers write software that works (is bug-free). The rest of us use it, we are technicians who configure and deploy the code written by the elite. This (plus technological innovation in general) results in an "economic supernova" where science and technology are applied to solve our basic problems in an efficient way. (Bucky Fuller calculated that this would be possible by sometime in the 1970's.) This results in the collapse of the profit motive precipitating a post-historical secular utopia (e.g. Star Trek). All of the technology is there, right on schedule, but we as a species continue in our old technically-obsolete patterns, unmindful.