That's an interesstingly delusional take, considering Open Source would support the free market in this specific case.

> If you're afraid that one country might create a better software product/company and win the market and this would become 'unfair,' you've already lost the plot.

That's not how this market works. With government, many projects do not make the deal because they have the better offer or superiour product, but because the company is better at playing the administration, which usually comes down to "investing more money". Open Source and open standards can remove some of the leverages they use, enabling smaller companies to play on a bigger field, and thus improving the market overall.

And with the actual political situation in Europe, there is also the beneficial sideeffect that more players in the market, and less dependecy from single point of failures, will allow everyone to raise their survival-rate in case of hostile actions.