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Using a proprietary solution that has FOSS components isn't the same as a FOSS solution. Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract (or a proprietary solution that uses FOSS components), which gives the corpo someone to blame.
Also, wasn't the abacus, technically, open source? So, they couldn't use that, either.