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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by Barrin92 on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:02AM (#37735657)
believe me the French are very, very proud of their country, that doesn't really mean you need to buy into rather cringy economic 'patriotism'. Especially when it makes zero sense as in the case of software. It's not like this browser came out of a 500 year old artisanal Japanese crafting shop, where the browser recipes where handed down the family tree

With these kinds of things it's basically, I have no way to differentiate my product, so I'm gonna slap the country flag on it for good measure

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by rvnx on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:14AM (#37735744)
You were probably fortunate to live in the better part of France :)

In many parts of France, simply displaying the French flag in front of your house is very dangerous, whereas it is perfectly normal for everywhere else.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by yuppiepuppie on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:29AM (#37736330)
Neither in Spain. Its quite provocative if you do
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by eloisant on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:54AM (#37736065)
Not in software.

Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can and claim they're a US company.

"Made in France" software is a shame and if you're targetting the global market (not just the French domestic market) no founder wants to advertise that.

Which is a shame because we have a lot of talented engineers in France, it's just that the biggest French software companies are frauds.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by gwervc on Monday October 02, 2023 @10:34AM (#37738678)
> Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can

I'm pretty sure it is more a question of astonishing level of taxation and the difficulty to rise capital than national pride.

> "Made in France" software is a shame

Any source to back this? I've never read or heard anywhere that a piece of software sucks because it was made in France. I'm pretty sure most people don't care, and those who do (Frenchmen) take it positively.

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