Is this contrarian? I'd imagine this is actually an incredibly popular opinion shared by basically everyone except government software contractors and some associated officials.
It is unpopular among university and research institutions that get federal grants. Also development companies that win contracts to create government websites/backends.
I agree with it, but it would disrupt a whole industry.
And it's technically how things are in the US. If US federal employees write some software, it's technically in the public domain. Classification levels may cause it to be hidden. It's when a contractor develops it that it starts getting murkier, the terms of their work determining ownership and, consequently, copyright.
If it was "incredibly popular", this petition would have much more than 30k signatures...