EU member nations have been attempting to diversify for as long as the EU has existed. Germany famously went down the Linux Workstation path and eventually gave

EU member nations have been attempting to diversify for as long as the EU has existed. Germany famously went down the Linux Workstation path and eventually gave up, instead of applying adequate resources to build a competing product. There's no reason these things cannot succeed. Apple pulled it off with MacOS (built on BSD). It's just attention span, resources, regulations and the political will. It's much easier to just buy Microsoft and hope for the best.