A GmbH is s for-profit company. They have a managing director, shareholders, … ultimately it’s a for—profit org established on an insider-level knowledge and good luck creating a competitive business to the one of those players. Case in point: Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH.

Some links for other folks looking at this:

https://www.sovereign.tech/legal https://www.sovereign.tech/faq https://www.sprind.org/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesagentur_f%C3%BCr_Sprungi...

I guess the government wouldn't fund more than one such org, even if the additional ones were non-profit instead.

At least NLnet (similar org from .nl) is a registered charity. IIRC its funds are from the EU level though.

https://nlnet.nl/

What happened with Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH?