No bigger socialists on Earth than rabid open-sourcers. They think all "information" should be free, and they deem all software to be information, no matter if someone spent millions of dollars creating it. To the open source extremist, it's perfectly logical that Microsoft should spend the money to create software, then give it away. Yeah yeah, I know there's no logic in that, but consider the source. (bad pun intended)
There are of course plenty of intelligent, rational open source proponents, as well, toward whom none of the above is intended.
MM