EU had the choice to go open source and it seems only the Germans are even trying to do it.
Decades of mal investment while feeding US hegemony.
Despite that open source is still here and can literally be picked and started use for a lot of basic end user applications....
Esp after latest proton bullshit, ceo sucking trump cock wkth the rest of them. I think most people can agree that corporate is not the best stewards of bad-rock infrastructure software development.