From afar it seems the EU does not understand how to productize non-trivial (not CRUD) software, at all. They will throw huge grants at incompetents who ship no

From afar it seems the EU does not understand how to productize non-trivial (not CRUD) software, at all. They will throw huge grants at incompetents who ship nothing or ship something that only captive users (because of regulation or government co tracts) will use. It’s partially a chicken-egg problem because they don’t seem to be good at “moving up the value chain” in software either, except in the more developing economies like Poland which get more outsourced international business that allows them upskill. In the developed countries it seems like they are stuck doing in-sourced commodity development of CRUD sites for the local market.