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This is how big tech saw free software until quite recently. Microsoft used to call linux communist.
FOSS basically goes against the concept of private property of software and embraced common ownership of software. Without private property, there is no capitalism. I wouldn't call FOSS communism or socialism, but there are elements in it.
Ok, and what's your point? If you read Marx, one essential point he claims is that without capitalism, there cannot be socialism.
Probably because they saw no use in reinventing the wheel? And why should they?
It's as if you told a revolutionary during the French revolution "You used weapons that you looted from the Bastille, weapons that were produced by the king.". What exactly would be the argument here?