I feel the same way. I'm no fan of monopoly governments but they claim to be working for the public and yet seem very unsure about using software from the public and open to the public. A lot of it is just ignorance I think.

I can still remember being a "conservative' in my twenties questioning all the inconsistencies and discovering open source. I remember thinking this sounds like communism. Of course I didn't really get what socialism actually was beyond the memes we are all taught. The ones that miss the root rot in the ideology and the functional deficiencies. It took a while for me to realize that open source is just voluntary cooperation and this is good, not socialist in any way. No more than charity is socialism.