> The STF is run by politologists with no clue. They fund flashy web apps that they "understand" and packaging.

That is complete nonsense. Where do you get this "information"?

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech lists OpenSSL, rusttls, Junit, pipewire, samba, varnish-cache, curl, Fortran, even friggin GNU coreutils and others. None of those are "flashy web apps".