Comment by yvoschaap

Increasingly where the desks and servers are is critical.

The cloud act and the current US administration doing things like sanctioning the ICC demonstrate why the locations of those desks is important.

That's such a silly argument. X, OpenAI and others have large Saudi investments. In the grant scheme of things the US is largely indebted to China and Japan.

An EU Company pays taxes in EU, has a EU mindset (worker laws etc.), focuses more on EU than other countries.

And an EU company can't be forced by the US Gov to hand over data.

Currency is interchangeable. Location might not be.

Europe isn't even a continent and has no real definition (none that would make any sense, anyway), so the whole thing is confusing by design

I honestly think it is. The amount of people who thinks Europe and EU are the same thing is really concerning.

And no, it's not only americans. I keep hearing this thing from people living in Europe as well (or better, in the EU). I also very often hear phrases like "Switzerland is not in Europe" to indicate that the country is not part of the European Union.

Isn't London on an island, mr. Pedantic?

I think you missed the joke

"best effort at Operating Systems development" doesn't imply anything about the market share.