it boost rate of R&D and innovation in EU so statistics look better. It reminds me a story told by my professor - years ago (70s) he implemented accounting system for some company and later noticed a serious bug which made it unusable. It wasn't a problem because system was never deployed - it was needed so the (state owned, because it was Poland) company could report deployment of innovation.
Very cynical, but wrong in this case. The point of the sovereign tech fund[0] is to throw some (relatively small in the scheme of things) money at open source infrastructure that everyone relies on, no matter if that infrastructure itself is German, or even European. Basically, as their graphics on their homepage allude to, aiming to improve https://xkcd.com/2347/
IMO this is exactly the common-sense investments that every country should be making in their own self interest, and is one of the things that Germany is actually doing right.
