It's not an isolated event, German states are pretty serious about this. They are funding openDesk [1], a fully open source office and collaboration suite aimi

It's not an isolated event, German states are pretty serious about this. They are funding openDesk [1], a fully open source office and collaboration suite aiming to replace solution likes Google Drive and Office 365 with sovereign solutions. Open-Xchange is one component of this suite. They are building this by taking existing software and packaging it in a consistent turn-key solution. To do this, they are paying the small European open source companies that build this existing software, to make it embeddable and accessible, and they fund specific features as well. They make sure the whole thing remains strictly open source, and they audit open source license compatibility. The approach feels solid and long term for once. It's not money that goes to your sexy local startup that builds proprietary software and will be bought by a big company a couple of years after. [1] https://opendesk.eu/ https://opendesk.eu/