Opensource

The primary interest of government is not itself as a business, it's the national security of the nation. So #1 and #2 are definitely that. The secondary interest of the government is the prosperity of its people, which in our country is measured via economic growth. #3 supports that, as does many open source projects, because open source is frequently the foundation of many buisnesses, who don't have much personal altruistic motivation to give back, but financially prosper off the venture significantly. The government, in one view, handles the tragedy of the commons of such projects for the economic prosperity of the tech sector, which gives them military and prosperity advantages via having those sectors within their borders. They also handle the abstract and uncertain nature of the profit motive for such ventures, just as they handle the funding of research in medicine, military, fundamental physics, early computer, communications, and space tech. The economy, fundamentally, is not the best answer for everything.

The more right-wingers fundamentally see the government as a business, the less they factually know or even can understand about how the world works.