do your own homework

But this is where groups like the E-FSF have an important role. While I hate suggesting the big consultancies should be handed more power, the EU should be demanding that government projects either do a lot of software stack work in-house, where they will use FLOSS software as a matter of course (and gain experience with it) or, given the propensity of governments to outsource, they need to demand joint copyright in all work written for them and get consultancies to build it for them.

Either version would result in a very good outcome, real supported software (either in-house or via a contract with a consultancy), plus hopefully consultancies employing or placing on retainer the software maintainers. For example, LibreOffice is tied up with - is it Collabra? - which comes over as being a support consultancy for LibreOffice.

If people like this (even American foundations, provided they open a European office to support European contracts) can get contracts that expand, that will achieve many of the EU's aims.

Cheers,
Wol