I suppose what I should have said is that Linux is much more European. KDE is DEFINITELY European. And as part of the KDE project came office applications and

I suppose what I should have said is that Linux is much more European. KDE is DEFINITELY European. And as part of the KDE project came office applications and the once-web-browser Konqueror. Tim Berners-Lee and CERN were european, you can view the early internet as European even if TCPIP came from the US DARPA. Suse, one of the most important pre-ubuntu distros is German. Ubuntu is Australian, really that makes it part of the overall British Commonwealth and much more "european" than "american". I can't comment on kernel contributions, package managers, etc. What is important is that the EU has several times looked at "computing independence", and if you look at Windows and Linux, Linux was much more european from that standpoint. AMD is american, but it's my impression they invested early into building europe-based fabs, which gave them a leg up with EU antitrust against Intel. From the "game of thrones" of geopolitics, AMD and Linux and CERN gave the EU some degree of parity, or at least an ability to stay close and relevant, with US tech innovations.