Most developers are just now hearing about the EU's open source mandate. Drupal developers have been living it for years.
The Cloud and AI Development Act will require public administrations across Europe to prefer open source when procuring cloud and AI software. Every ministry, every agency, every institution — now legally nudged toward platforms with a proven open source track record.
Drupal has been powering EU institutions for years. The architecture, the security model, the multilingual support, the API-first flexibility: it was built for exactly this environment.
Worth noting, as Volkan Jacobsen pointed out: the Commission's own open source strategy site runs on Drupal. That isn't a coincidence, it's a signal.
Europe didn't just choose open source. It chose accountability over vendor dependency, transparency over black boxes, community over corporate roadmaps. Drupal made that same choice 25 years ago.