There would be FLOSS projects that are effectively taken over by government, whose employees would make up the majority of contributors and perhaps even 100% of maintainers. Worse, governments could delegate development and maintenance to BigTech. Leading to pseudo-FLOSS like Chromium and Firefox.

this is a valid discussion no matter which corner of the digital universe we focus on, but priorities are terribly important:

what matters now is not whether goverments fund tools they use (or could use) like #drupal, #nextcloud, #libreoffice, #fediverse servers and so much else

Total control of mobile devices is the Death Star of the Evil Empire.

The equivalent of funding roads, schools and hospitals is an #opensource mobile OS as a universal right for every single citizen.