Yes American companies have been good at capitalizing on IT and a lot of companies are "by the balls" of Microsoft, but much infra is opensource. Linux runs the world.

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stefanfisk 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Linus moved to the US two decades ago, so it's been quite a while since Linux could be considered "European".

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carlhjerpe 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think it should be considered what it is, global with profits centered in the US.

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ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-]

Certainly, the are a fair number of contributors in Europe and both SUSE and Canonical are European based. I still think it's hard not to think of Linux as fairly US-centric however if only because of how many large US companies use (and contribute to) Linux.

	▲	carlhjerpe 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Valid, I've noticed that a lot of non-US contributors work for American corporations too. It's a bit ideological for me ("OSS is global") so I think I might gaslight myself into believing it's more equal than it is. I'm happy wherever the contributions come from either way but I will never call Linux US-centric! Lennart Poettering(German, works for American corps) comes to mind as an example, though not a kernel developer.

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csomar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Most people do not interface with Linux on a bare metal, self-assembled server. They use AWS, GCP and Azure. There is Alibaba Cloud but it is so bad, I can't even properly signup/signin.

> Linux runs the world.

The world infra runs on top of Linux. Linux is open source. Most of this infra is American.

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carlhjerpe a day ago | parent [-]

Is AWS Stockholm American? It's a bit of a stretch, it's profits surely go to America and the control plane is American.

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csomar a day ago | parent [-]

Another way to think of it: AWS Stockholm is a pipeline to navigate Sweden regulation/laws/banking to funnel money out of there. The core is still American/controlled in America. Otherwise, people would have just hosted in a Swedish hosting platform.

	▲	carlhjerpe a day ago \| parent [-]
		Swedish power, Swedish backbone, Taiwanese chips and boards, and an American control plane. But yes you're right, it's an American service offering that I for cost reasons and I avoid big cloud like the plague. USA surely knows how to charge for their services and lock customers in