Individuals can't ride Harleys through hotel lobbies. Likewise, corporations can only dominate a certain amount of resources, whether those are oil fields or computer screens. Imposing limitations on a public company is arbitrary, but so is the existence of the public company itself. Further, even Microsoft has to admit that the point where government authority comes to bear in its business is pretty remote. While high tech's urge toward libertarianism can partially be explained away as naked self-interest, the answer mostly lies in engineering schools.
Engineering education is based almost exclusively upon absolutes.
Monty Python movies are funny. Not a lot of quibbling occurs. Unfortunately, that need for clarity does not always translate easily to human society. Rather than compromise or persuade, however, the scientifically educated plow forward with a faith logic. It rarely works.