> and develop domestic alternatives.
replyTherein lies the rub for the EU. They think they can just regulate such alternatives into existence, yet have time and time again failed to provide such alternatives.
With exceptions. Linux being the most obvious example.
replyLinux is no EU project, but very much global. It just happens that its originator (who, quite tellingly, has been living and working in the US since the mid-90s) is Finnish.
replyI was using Linux for work while Linus was still in Europe.
replyAll the large US tech companies are also global. Cuts both ways.