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Re:Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source... by TacticalCoder on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:42AM (#36920229)
I agree with your comment and I have this to say to those disagreeing: list me the biggest EU software companies and their sizes compared to the SV-behemots.

For a quick googling and the top 10 EU software companies generate 131 billion of revenues combined, which is ridiculously low.

SAP and Siemens AG together (the two biggest in the EU) have a market 1/10th (!!!) of the size of Microsoft.

Can we please get real?

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Re:Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source... by troupo on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:45PM (#36922011)
> list me the biggest EU software companies and their sizes compared to the SV-behemots.

List me the biggest SV-behemoths that (any combination of any three or four below below is true for 99% SV "behemoths"):

- are profitable

- don't rely on unlimited investor money to survive in hopes to corner the market

- don't rely on lax privacy laws to collect and sale user data en masse

- don't exist to be absorbed by a megacrop at a large price

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