There's a long and rich history of government funding R&D in Europe and it's pretty well known what it works for. (And innovations in the conventional definiti

There's a long and rich history of government funding R&D in Europe and it's pretty well known what it works for. (And innovations in the conventional definition, meaning incremental refinements of technological solutions, pretty much trickle out every time you pay r&d to work on something) I'm betting this will (among other things) result in open source work on stuff like CEPH, OpenStack, etc.