Hmmm, in this framing, would the the free-software / open-source hacker folks would be the socialists/communists that ally against the status-quo, getting purge

Hmmm, in this framing, would the the free-software / open-source hacker folks would be the socialists/communists that ally against the status-quo, getting purged later when the fascists get enough power? Another lens to try seeing the situation through is techno-feudalism, although IMO that implies semi-autonomous regions with authority that the top can't directly take or manage. (So it would have to be about people, rather than admin privileges in software.)