You have a great point, but discussing 'Linux' misses the forest for the trees. American vendors had solutions, European vendors did not. Because you are correc

You have a great point, but discussing 'Linux' misses the forest for the trees. American vendors had solutions, European vendors did not. Because you are correct and Europeans don't really value software. ('Linux distros' get into the HN zone where nobody needs dropbox because they could write a shell script. Or install a crappy webmail package on a VPS. Google is entirely Linux and that's not what you are suggesting. It's irrelevant to the larger picture.)