I'm saying it's not broken, you're just not willing to pay the "taxes" to participate. It's a commune. You have to be willing to do the work, to contribute in some way if you want things done. You don't want to write the driver. You don't want to put up a bounty. Just put up the money for MS and accept the alternative. That's your choice. The system isn't broken just because you won't participate. The public at whole isn't a part of the open source community. You aren't born a citizen you choose to become one, and you do so by contributing to the community.

As a side note I'd argue that in this country it's often the friends of those making the decisions who get "their streets paved" or "go to public school" before the rest of us.