Well could be these companies are buying on fascism because they’re either run by fascists or being shaken down by fascists or their friends are fascists encouraging them to do this and they uncritically do so for some vague or not so vague promises. So it’s more a signal of obedience and doubling down on the move to open, naked reaction and taking over open source with fascism. That or its an intelligence op and the fascism is a bonus but the guy behind it is just pliable or a useful tool and there are larger plans to use this as a vehicle for influence to control open source, insert back-doors, push CIA coder guys into the right positions, steer in anti-China stuff to carve up the world of open source into strictly divided western and non-western code, remove openness and cooperation and militarize the space for American use. Either way not good as functionally this is a big money pot being created and centralized under reactionary control to bully open source into adopting reactionary politics and other not good things. Could be Linux is seen as increasingly a threat with the open spying on Microsoft driving enough of the public to Linux that corporations, governments, etc feel a need now to seize control of it.