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Communism is the Workers seizing the means of production
FOSS is software developers seizing the means of software development.
Without FOSS, most of the packages on your system would be license by a third party and usually at a price. This would mean you would have to pay for these licenses.
Without FOSS it's no different than requiring capital to run your business.
With FOSS you already have capital to run a software business since the software developers have seized the means to produce software.
btw I am not communist I see the universe as a balancing act...a little bit of communism is okay. and yes FOSS / Linux is purely post-capital communism. There is no state that regulates FOSS, the workers on the FOSS projects regulate FOSS projects. If capital takes over FOSS and over regulates them, then the project can be instantly seized by workers at anytime via a fork.
IMO in the future all software will trend towards FOSS. I bet a windows distro (windows desktop with non DCMA'd WINE and direct-x) is on the horizon because it would be the easiest way to implement a ARM or RISC-V operating system that is usable. I would pay for a Windows linux distro thats for sure and I know many others who would. However this would have more people get comfortable with linux and they may jump to a FOSS desktop and be more likely to adopt.