Comment by bsder

> As much as I want independent EU software ecosystem, I don't think using public funding can breed anything but more corruption.

Well, you described what happens when you outsource everything.

Governments used to ... gasp ... employ people to do tasks so that you didn't have to outsource every single piddly task. And since those employees could do the tasks, there was a floor such that selecting nobody and doing it in house was always an option.

Yes, that has different failure modes. However, you have more levers over those failure modes as opposed to a single lever of "Head to court and try to win a legal case."