At the same time, the “World Wide Web,” composed of the HTTP protocol and the HTML format, was invented by a British citizen and a Belgian citizen who were working in a European research facility located in Switzerland. But the building was on the border with France, and there’s much historical evidence pointing to the Web and its first server having been invented in France.
It’s hard to be more European than the Web!
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Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?
All this nice opensource code still is executed on hardware owned (Intellectual Property/IP) by AMD/Intel/Qualcomm/NVIDIA/Apple. Having nice European-Open Source projects is not enough without the hardware layer and standards (instruction sets, drivers), which are owned IP by US cooperation’s.
Also one needs to consider cooperation between military-complex/secret-service and big-tech cooperation, which are basically hidden subsidies for the civilian part of the business. And if eu governments do not subsidize their own tech standards similarly they will get out-competed naturally.