The main idea is that the Open source community is actually a mini anarch-communist community existing within the Internet - for a number of reasons - please read below.
"People just don't realise that all these things go through undersea cables - that this is the main way these economies are all linked," said Alan Mauldin, the research director of TeleGeography. "Even when you're using wireless internet, it's only really wireless back to your base station: the rest is done over real, physical connections."