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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by seszett on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:45AM (#34856366)
> Entire huge countries such as France and Italy produce basically nothing of value when it comes to tech, while small nations like Estonia and Finland punch well above their weight.

I'm still waiting for the Estonian space rockets and Finnish airplanes and high speed rail. Seriously your rant is a bit misplaced.

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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by arlort on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:49AM (#34856394)
Tech is only tech if it runs on javascript
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by runlaszlorun on Sunday February 19, 2023 @02:57PM (#34861204)
totally random but had me laughing my ass off…
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by panick21_ on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:50PM (#34862702)
Yeah like a Tesla.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by nip on Sunday February 19, 2023 @09:08AM (#34857671)
OP words are dramatic, but he does have a point – bigger players in Europe could (and should) do better.

You are on the other hand setting unrealistic expectations for Estonia / Finland.

Hardware is obviously a lot more costly than software, hence why you hear more about software tech from Estonia (Skype, Transferwise, Pipedrive, Veriff to name a few) than hardware (Milrem robotics, Co-Module, Woola...) as the latter are of much smaller scale (respective to the size of Estonia) than the former: software scales a lot better.

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