The process you're describing is underway. Schleswig-Holstein, Munich, Leon, and the Austrian military all come to mind as recent examples of that sort of migration, and then pivoting savings into support contracts for open source.
That process is super important yes, but what about cases where the relevant government bodies don't think the open source offering is ready yet for them?
That is where the STF steps in, and gives funding to open source projects so that they can develop to a point where their software is ready for stable adoption by governments.
this is what I mean by distributed, unconcentrated change.
you will never make meaningful progress by those initiatives, there should be an echo of the US investment in data centers or china's investment in EVs.
bigger, systematic, with immediate impact on the software / cloud stack in the EU first and globally.
That process is super important yes, but what about cases where the relevant government bodies don't think the open source offering is ready yet for them?
That is where the STF steps in, and gives funding to open source projects so that they can develop to a point where their software is ready for stable adoption by governments.