Kudos for the EU (and as often, also here: France!) for supporting such initiatives to open up niche, often-invisible areas of a market to create new grounds for innovation and disruption!
It doesn't work out in all cases, but in areas where it does it silently moves society forward!
Here in Europe , a lot of former public utilities companies and the public sector in general has been really pushing niche OSS and OpenData projects in Europe.
It's not always useful (rarely actually) for the average Joe, but it's definitely cool to see them embracing OSS and OpenData.
It doesn't work out in all cases, but in areas where it does it silently moves society forward!