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Brexit Dividend: Dominic Cummings wants to create a “British Google”

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    #21
    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Agreed in principle however Spotify is Swedish, here are some chart type thingies:





    Don't forget that Linux is also, originally, Finnish...
    US tech is 10x bigger than the best Europe has to offer. And open source does not really count...
    First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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      #22
      Originally posted by _V_ View Post
      US tech is 10x bigger than the best Europe has to offer. And open source does not really count...
      Oh yes it does. eg: Open source software strategy | European Commission

      Considering that companies such as Microsoft will give away their OS for free to corporates in exchange for paid support contracts, it is not dissimilar in the way that open source works.
      "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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        #23
        Originally posted by Paddy View Post
        Oh yes it does. eg: Open source software strategy | European Commission

        Considering that companies such as Microsoft will give away their OS for free to corporates in exchange for paid support contracts, it is not dissimilar in the way that open source works.
        It'd be interesting if it was feasible to measure open source contributions, no doubt the US decimates everyone else on that measure along with everything else tech related.

        "EU" being "pro" open source is in no small part a move against US tech dominance, would it cannibalise its own market if Microsoft was a EU company?

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