Besides money, people and knowledge that sister comments have mentioned, there is another huge factor: Aversion to risk. No european company, bureaucracy, gove

Besides money, people and knowledge that sister comments have mentioned, there is another huge factor: Aversion to risk. No european company, bureaucracy, government is as bold and risk-taking as those over the pond. Only when something has been proven, stamped, certified and established, will it be used. So new and small OSS projects, startups, and generally new ways of doing things will have a far harder time overall. There is even the tendency to spend tons of public money on stuff like GAIA-X to establish European cloud infrastructure. And then never using it because all that new-fangled stuff where one would be the first user cannot ever be good and viable. Thereby forgetting that money has already been paid to make it exactly like the European governments wanted it to be, and that any service needs its first users to grow over the teething problems...