Tech CEOs in Europe are urging the region to take bolder actions to tackle Big Tech's dominance and counter reliance on the U.S. after Donald Trump's presidential election win.

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  • CEOs of European technology companies told CNBC at the Web Summit technology conference this week that the continent should adopt a “Europe-first” approach to tech, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.
  • Andy Yen, CEO of VPN maker Proton, said Europe should “step up” and “be aggressive” to counter U.S. Big Tech firms’ tight grip on many important technologies, such as web browsing, cloud computing, smartphones — and now artificial intelligence.
  • Thomas Plantenga, CEO of Lithuania-based used clothing app Vinted, urged Europe to take the “right choices” to ensure it doesn’t get “left behind.”
    • M33@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Voted. There is OpenSuse, but I’m not sure how percentage of European it is.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
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        21 hours ago

        wiki says it’s sponsored by the German company SUSE, however the webpage says OpenSuse LLC 🤨 It does say represented by some dude in Germany in the imprint. Maybe a translation from the German GmbH, which does translate to LLC in English.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 hours ago

          Suse is headquartered in Luxembourg, privately owned by Swedish finance. It was at times owned by Novell and they moved headquarters to the US. It’s the copyright notice which says LLC, and their US branch might be contributing a lot, the imprint says… what, exactly? This is German-style “responsible in accordance with MStV” type language but without mentioning that treaty, and it’s not an organisation or person but “the chair” of… “the board” of… what organisation? I couldn’t find any bylaws, legal identity or such. An implicit German association? I guess that’s what stuff would default to push come to shove. Represented by an address in Germany. Which indeed is the address of SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, but an address is not a legal entity. Maybe the site is managed from the US and some German lawyer said there needs to be an imprint page and the US side just completely misunderstands what’s that supposed to be and why it’s a thing in Germany.

          • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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            3 hours ago

            They are indeed pretty international, with development happening largely in Germany, Czechia, Bulgaria, India, China, and the US. The US branch does much of the marketing and some development (e.g. anything Rancher, i.e. Kubernetes).

            That said, the offices that grew most in recent years are those in India and those in Bulgaria, whereas Germany went on a hiring freeze. I could imagine that the US and China offices of Rancher also grew quite a bit.