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Absolutely advocating supporting local businesses. Just like I advocate using OSS. Is an EU company going to make a better search engine than Google on day on

Absolutely advocating supporting local businesses. Just like I advocate using OSS. Is an EU company going to make a better search engine than Google on day one? Is any company going to be an absolute world-beater on day one? Sometimes voting with your wallet means supporting something you want to succeed... I mean, I'll never use MS products nor buy an Apple product, ever. Not even if they have the nicest X. Because I don't like the prospect of a world where it's only MS/Apple. So I use products that are good for an open world as much as possible. In the real world, people support local businesses. People support small business and hand-made products, even if it's more expensive. Because that's how you grow your local economy.

moonchrome 5y ago
>In the real world, people support local businesses. People support small business and hand-made products, even if it's more expensive. Because that's how you grow your local economy. That's fine as a consumer. But as a business and a professional I don't have time to muck around with half-baked "local" solutions when better solutions exist.
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  The argument could have been made that the early Googlers shouldn't have been mucking around with Python and Linux...
  - bcrosby95 5y ago
    They used Python because it provided value, not because it might in 5, 10, 20 years into the future.
    - Mikeb85 5y ago
      You missed the point... Obviously Google's stack enabled them to be successful. I think tools like Python, Ruby and PHP still are great. Not everyone is Google-scale.