Digital sovereignty is a key topic today, also in the context of digitalisation in business and administration, which is only progressing slowly in Germany. Open source software is a key driver in making users and organisations more digitally sovereign. With Open source urgently needed features do not depend on the goodwill of the manufacturer, but can be actively incorporated into the code through in-house development or by commissioning external service providers. In addition, open source software can be self-operated on resources that do not raise data protection concerns.

Open source not only means that software can be used free of licence fees, but also makes it possible to develop new features and incorporate them into the distribution. If the maintainer of the softwar ...