But they often have a point. In this case, it is worrying that a large portion of the income of the software industry is the government. That is our money being spent to prop up an industry. OSS fits my belief in small government and the complete absence of corporate welfare. If the government were to take Linux, OpenOffice and other OSS/free software and expend the resources to modify it to their exact needs, it would be better for us. On one hand the government would get exactly what it needs rather than making off the shelf software fit those needs, and on the other hand they would give back to the public something for the tax money spent, rather than that money going directly to corporations.
In simpler terms, I'd rather hear that the NSA spent $50 million on Linux or BSD development to advance it far beyond any current OS, than to hear they just spent $50 million on software licenses. At least then I know I could download it and get something back for my tax dollars.