[oakwhiz]

Proprietary products are going to exist for a while longer whether we want them or not. There are times when I would rather have proprietary products running some obfuscated but peer-reviewed open source code, than some broken code that the creators decided to piece together under deadlines.

[harshreality]

Why don't you contact companies directly and offer to work for free to improve their broken code?

[oakwhiz]

I'm pretty sure that's called an internship :-)

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I like the ideals of free software, it's just not totally practical for everything.