[Skunkworks] Will Open source make developing nations dumber and dependent on freeware to run economies?

Not to provoke any nerves etc and am just wondering aloud. As I see tech things evolve each day or month, I kind of get the impression Open Source will be a cause of a lot of misery, especially where it is involved in many versions and platforms. I think eg FreeBSD holds the Open Source key to future stability and development and should be the way forward for a single platform approach. Why are we creating modern type writers by running Open Source on laptops and desktops? me mid-week thots... :-)