The author's sole evidence that Europe sucks at technological innovation is that it doesn't make as much money off of it. That's an understandable mistake, but

The author's sole evidence that Europe sucks at technological innovation is that it doesn't make as much money off of it. That's an understandable mistake, but a huge one. The web? Invented in Europe, given away. Linux? Invented in Europe, given away. MySQL? Invented in Europe, given away. Great programming languages? Invented in Europe, given away. The US is better at taking those inventions and making Icanhascheezburger, Twitter and Farmville.