You're right they don't seem relevant to me, but I can acknowledge some things are not relevant to me but are still important. Take Baidu for instance, I get I'

You're right they don't seem relevant to me, but I can acknowledge some things are not relevant to me but are still important. Take Baidu for instance, I get I'll never likely use it, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge its importance. Looking at software vendors in the EU, there doesn't seem to be any companies that offer a service I would ever want. There are a few large ERP vendors, and some Anti-virus firms, and what? Seriously, this isn't meant to be mean, I just don't know any of them. There seems to be an unlimited array of talented euro engineers on twitter talking about specialized type systems and exotic data models and theoretical comp sci and then a net nothing on the software front. Do they all just leave and work in SV? This is one of those cases where I would love someone to come in and set me right. I'd much rather a world where there is a huge amount of cool things happening that I'm unaware of, rather than just MS, Apple, and Google sucking all the engineers from their countries to Silicon Valley.