The city shouldn't maximise for profit, that's clear. But in this case they might be optimizing for a vague political goal at the cost of quality of service. St

The city shouldn't maximise for profit, that's clear. But in this case they might be optimizing for a vague political goal at the cost of quality of service. Stuff like, a planning permission taking longer to process, but, hey, we benefited the local open source community. I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm saying that's the kind of unintended consequences you risk running into when you muddle the mission goal. By the way, any contract of any meaningful size must be tendered EU-wide. It's illegal for a city to demand that its providers are local.