"Individual developers working for individual companies are rarely if ever thinking about the good of their users, except in a very narrow profit motivated sense, and never thinking about the good of the ecosystem as a whole."

Are you serious? No one thinks this way? I've worked at several companies where the software I've written was EXPLICITLY written with others in mind. To claim "rarely, if ever" shows that you know very little about this industry. Or, you surround yourself with a bunch of selfish people who shouldn't be doing software development.