[deanc]

I think if we're to move to away from these US products to open source ones, then governments should also provide resources or funding to develop them using the licensing fees they save. Is the Danish government contributing back to libreoffice?

[hermanzegerman]

The German State of Schleswig Holstein does

https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-s...

[wolvoleo]

There's a lot more than just one municipality. The French government uses a lot of open source and is actively working on la suite.. The gendarmerie has been on Linux for years. Nato is using matrix (noteworthy especially because America is of course part of that)

https://element.io/en/case-studies/nato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

[toomuchtodo]

Indeed, take what you're paying US Big Tech and direct it to domestic EU enterprises, corporate or non profit.

[trinsic2]

Agreed. There should be some structure setup for open source projects to request contribution fees. Having stuff like this in plain sight might help orgs play nice.