Jeff Atwood on his Coding Horror blog says “Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?” I'll write a full answer at some point, but I'll just say this: I have yet to see anything come out of the OSS movement that is truly, amazingly beautiful and revolutionary. I think it's a side-effect of the community. There are so many little things that people care about, and so many different voices on a project - you end up with such a diverse set of goals and directions that it's nigh on impossible to focus. Without focus, you can't get quality products out.
This, of course, doesn't preclude so-called "Freedom Zero", but there's a second part to this - in order to get such strict focus, you have to have either a single driving point or an insanely well-coordinated team. Teams can almost never last that way, unfortunately - inevitable differences in opinion will split the group. So to have a long-lived incredibly coherent beautiful idea, you have to have a single source. And it is incredibly rare for a single source to have the capital and means to achieve the idea. There are a few exceptions to this, and they are incredibly well known: Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, Dean Kamen. I'd also put Steve Jobs in that list. When someone figures out how to structure society so that we can achieve the same quality of products as those that these folks produce yet still be able to be Freedom Zero'd.... sign me up. I'd be stoked. Until then...