;-)
It wasn't meant to be cute (but you are always welcome to buy me a drink) nor "right". It was meant to address the two possible interpretations: (a) FOSS is an "attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all" -- which it is not; it's linked with fairly elaborate structures, etc... all that cute stuff ;-) you wrote. (b) the choice by an individual to use FOSS software is an "attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all". That's sort of trivially right (i.e., just one guy doing anything cannot, for trivially obvious reasons, solve global problems), but nobody claimed that (in particular, Miles did not). And, its irrelevant. The value of FOSS is not in the exhortations of this or that individual to other individuals to use it. Finally, IMHO, this sort of thinking is fundamentally incorrect and counter-productive -- it echoes the right- wing obsession with identifying solutions, movements, etc with individuals by misapplying the facts that solutions arise from human beings (and their actions) and human-beings can be broken down, in one sense (though not all), to particular individuals.
--ravi