News stories such as these are helpful to the free software movement since they provide a very renewed sense of mainstream legitimacy to the project. I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes a very common occurrence later down the line as the feature ceiling for proprietary apps shit the bed with “AI” grifting and SaaSS subscription models while libre apps slowly catch up.

i’m surprised entire governments run and trust code they don’t actually know what its doing in the first place, and is possibly coming from another country.