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Europe should build their own software. Instead of complaining about US monopolies the EU should stimulate innovative startups right here. Create an environment

Europe should build their own software. Instead of complaining about US monopolies the EU should stimulate innovative startups right here. Create an environment where talent doesn’t flee to the US. And if it’s not about creating multi-billion dollar/euro companies, but civil liberties and data protection: just invest some spare pennies in open source alternatives. The only reason US (and Chinese) tech companies form a threat to European citizens is because for some reasons we have zero local alternatives.

jacquesm 6y ago
Europe does build its own software. And anything even remotely successful then gets acquired by some US entity.
- iagovar 6y ago
  This has been a common theme. Dassault owns CATIA and Solidworks tough, and they've been used a lot in Europe.
  - ur-whale 6y ago
    Ever tried to use CATIA? Best thing there is if you want a head trip back to the 70's
    - iagovar 6y ago
      Probably, but Solidworks is quite well regarded.
  - choonway 6y ago
    used CATIA - it's like C compared to the host of the fad languages out there.
- jfim 6y ago
  Dassault does both Catia and Solidworks, and as far as I know, they're French.
Keyframe 6y ago
Isn't ArchiCAD european?
- peterbozso 6y ago
  It is, it's Hungarian.
bleepblorp 6y ago
The need for friction-free interoperability combined with the technical challenges of competing vendors implementing fully interoperable software means most domain-specific software markets are an economic natural monopoly where only one product can dominate. There is no obvious good economic or technological solution to this, short of heavily regulating software vendors so they are responsive to customer needs or stripping vendors of their copyrights and open sourcing everything. Neither choice is politically possible.
tedd-the-tiger 6y ago
CERN sponsors Kicad for EDA.
runxel 6y ago
Well, we do, and we are pretty successful. Archicad is Hungarian, Allplan is German, Tekla originates from Finnland. (Also please note: the offices which signed the open letter to Autodesk are mostly UK-based, so strictly speaking are not members of the EU ;))

jacquesm 6y ago

Europe does build its own software. And anything even remotely successful then gets acquired by some US entity.

iagovar 6y ago
This has been a common theme. Dassault owns CATIA and Solidworks tough, and they've been used a lot in Europe.
- ur-whale 6y ago
  Ever tried to use CATIA? Best thing there is if you want a head trip back to the 70's
  - iagovar 6y ago
    Probably, but Solidworks is quite well regarded.
- choonway 6y ago
  used CATIA - it's like C compared to the host of the fad languages out there.
jfim 6y ago
Dassault does both Catia and Solidworks, and as far as I know, they're French.

Keyframe 6y ago

Isn't ArchiCAD european?

peterbozso 6y ago
It is, it's Hungarian.

bleepblorp 6y ago

The need for friction-free interoperability combined with the technical challenges of competing vendors implementing fully interoperable software means most domain-specific software markets are an economic natural monopoly where only one product can dominate. There is no obvious good economic or technological solution to this, short of heavily regulating software vendors so they are responsive to customer needs or stripping vendors of their copyrights and open sourcing everything. Neither choice is politically possible.

tedd-the-tiger 6y ago

CERN sponsors Kicad for EDA.

runxel 6y ago

Well, we do, and we are pretty successful. Archicad is Hungarian, Allplan is German, Tekla originates from Finnland. (Also please note: the offices which signed the open letter to Autodesk are mostly UK-based, so strictly speaking are not members of the EU ;))