The crazy thing is that there is a model where governments / states / localities can migrate away from windows / Microsoft 365 ... and use part of the savings to fund open-source

if this was done across Europe we'd have sovereign open-source tech stack that is strong, well funded, and used by 10s of millions in the EU alone.

I have no idea why simple ideas like this are not persuade instead lots of incoherent, almost desperate distributed efforts are preferred.

ultimately I do believe that the bureaucrats in the EU are insanely disconnected from reality.