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1. Tulliu+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-26 20:26:12
Not sure why you're being downvoted, Europe has been mostly bad at software and services for a long time now. There's a reason Linus lives in Oregon.

There's always this occasional chatter about being more competitive, and certainly some good ideas -- for example, the Draghi Report -- but then nothing happens, or you get a few half measures at most.

I guess the one upside of Trump being such an aggressive jackass is that it might finally provide enough impetus for European countries to take further integration more seriously.

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2. einr+mf[view] [source] 2026-01-26 21:42:13
>>Tulliu+(OP)
There's a reason Linus lives in Oregon.

What is the reason Linus lives in Oregon? By his own admission, 90% of his workday is reading and answering email. We have email in Europe, so that can’t be it.

3. albuic+fH[view] [source] 2026-01-27 00:11:50
>>Tulliu+(OP)
Europe has good software companies. It's just that the US has bigger VC funding which makes European companies unable to compete when US/EU companies are "fighting".
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