The majority of the world's software is the second case. It just so happens we have a lot of software product and services companies in the US. Also, just becau

The majority of the world's software is the second case. It just so happens we have a lot of software product and services companies in the US. Also, just because you're a technology vendor doesn't mean that you'll treat your software developers well. There's tons of really mediocre software companies (large ones, even) that outsource developers constantly and shower sales with massive bonuses because they've failed to make a good business being good at technology, so they become a sales-oriented culture. This tends to happen at the majority of large (10k+ employee) software companies across the Fortune 500. Technology itself is a business few are actually capable of doing well in, most just mark up crap for other businesses and deliver "value" in areas that have nothing to do with good engineers of any sort.