Comment by openrisk

The problem is that whatever esoteric motivations technical people have to join the FOSS movement (scratching an itch, seeking fame, saving the world, doing what everybody else is doing etc.), does not translate well to the domain of designing user experiences. People with the education and talent to have an impact here have neither incentives nor practical means to "FOSS-it". You could Creative Commons some artwork (and there are beautiful examples) but thats about it. The art and science of making software usable thus remains a proprietary pursuit. Indeed if that bottleneck could somehow be relaxed, adoption of FOSS software would skyrocket because the technical core is so good and keeps getting better.