I think you need to look into what favoured the creation of MS or Apple in the first place MS is from Seattle but it didn't start there Culture and investment

I think you need to look into what favoured the creation of MS or Apple in the first place MS is from Seattle but it didn't start there Culture and investment/market conditions (sure, with the help of laws) play a much stronger part on that You couldn't get them without available hardware and without a market willing to experiment. And you couldn't have that without strong CS/EE departments that had strong investment in the decades prior that had spun a whole semiconductor industry And you wouldn't have had that without some welcoming immigration laws (at the decades prior) and some worldwide conflicts neither and a specific country that touches both main oceans and has decided that farther away areas might be safer for some developments. If you want to understand why laws in France are the way they are you need to take a look at what happened in the past 250 yrs more or less.