Comment by deanc
16 hours ago
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?
The German State of Schleswig Holstein does
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-s...
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
Indeed, take what you're paying US Big Tech and direct it to domestic EU enterprises, corporate or non profit.