You're very very wrong nowadays, see https://code.gouv.fr/fr/ and https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/socle-interministeriel-....

Thank you. Baseless cynicism gets tiring. Not that governments are perfect, but overall it works better than people credit them for.

The French government has been investing in open source for quite a long time now, just not on sexy and high-visibility projects.