Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!
My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html
#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968
> We often hear Europeans don’t have, like Americans, the "success culture." […] Europeans like success. But they don’t consider "winning against the whole society" as one. They consider success a collective endeavour. […] In the media, success is often reduced to the company size or the founder's bank. Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity? What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons?