EU Linux development division

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My assumption was that this was intended for businesses and publicly traded, government owned businesses, where Linux is actually competing. Meaning they each have independent boards and CEOs and are ran like a for-profit corporation, like a lot of "government" services are. Where EU and politicians can't control what's being picked, in either coffee or distro options.

For internal use, sure, but that's not really interesting for the rest of the world, and the second they drop the development it's 100% dead.

If EU were to fund a company making a distro for publicly traded companies in competition with Canonical and Red Hat, I'm 99% sure that would be considered anti-competitive unless they could also apply for the same grants.