If I understand it correctly, the "Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland" has received roughly $3 mio in government funding annually to promote "Cyber sovereign

If I understand it correctly, the "Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland" has received roughly $3 mio in government funding annually to promote "Cyber sovereignty". You are correct that the individual grant to microG was probably capped at €47k, but since they also sent out grant money to https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://openwrt.org/ https://openwrt.org/ https://bitmask.net/ https://bitmask.net/ https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon https://taler.net/en/index.html https://taler.net/en/index.html https://identity-stick.github.io/ https://identity-stick.github.io/ https://github.com/lernapparat/lotranslate https://github.com/lernapparat/lotranslate https://sbws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://sbws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://leap.se/ https://leap.se/ https://robur.io/Our%20Work/Projects#OpenVPN https://robur.io/Our%20Work/Projects#OpenVPN it looks like a coordinated campaign to me. The list includes a privacy-conscious OS, some VPNs, some Tor services, and a Cloud-free translation system for LibreOffice. microG very much fits into that list of tools to avoid Google's spying eye.