On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:13 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
Tim, I am not too sure about this. No single piece of open source software comes to my mind when hearing bay area or silicon Valley. And no people living there and no company located there. Except the Gnu c compiler and may postgres no single piece of open source software came out of the United states, at least not without pressure from software from other countries, mostly German speaking, Scandinavia, Asia.
Might I suggest, then, that you're not very familiar with open source software. The basis of modern UNIX is BSD, and its related free license, out of Berkeley, California. Add to that the output of major firms like Sun Microsystems (Java) and Google (Android) for their contributions to the FLOSS landscape, and it's hard to find anywhere else in the world with more impact.
Do you not have the impression beeing located in the United states poisons the minds of people and has quite a bad influence on the technology output of Wmf?
Poisons? Too odd to merit a response.