[theflash666]

From my understanding, most European governments purchase American or other foreign-owned software, which often does not contribute to tax revenues in the countries where it is used.

[rvense]

Software licenses are certainly a major expense for all levels of the Danish government. (Cloud infrastructure, too, increasingly.)

They've started complaining, especially since prices have been going up, but while there's rumbling underground, we've yet to see any real movement away from Microsoft.

[theflash666]

Actually, open-source product and code can totally be deployed or reused by private actors to make money of it