Comment by nsksl
10 days ago
Where do you get from that we are capable of doing it ourselves? All EU-made software I've used was terrible, and the one that was a bit better than terrible was bought by a US company.
10 days ago
Where do you get from that we are capable of doing it ourselves? All EU-made software I've used was terrible, and the one that was a bit better than terrible was bought by a US company.
Where do you live? I live in Sweden and I have used a lot of not so bad software from Sweden. Maybe its just your country, but at least in Sweden the government can make software for its services that works well, better than what I've seen from the US government.
> and the one that was a bit better than terrible was bought by a US company
But here you say EU can make great software? Just that USA then buys it. So we should just ban USA from buying our great software companies, is that what you are saying?
Most closed source US software is garbage too. Some stuff, like Steam, is beloved anyway. But actually the program itself is terrible and slow even on decent computers.
Struggling to think of corporate produced software that doesn’t suck. iOS Safari is ok, I guess.
Sure but "almost all tech is bad but almost all non-bad tech is American" in effect means European software is seen as bad. (And as an American who's spent a lot of time in Europe, this has been my experience, personally.)
In America the least bad stuff eventually rises to the top. In Europe it feels like it's all just one shared pit.
> almost all non-bad tech is American
The reason is because Americans buy the other tech firms, so its not because they don't make non-bad tech its because USA just monopolizes it via very aggressive acquisitions.
At least in Norway, the user -facing state services are good. They used to suck, but are now good.
I can do most anything online, haven’t had to physically visit an gov office for years, outside voting and getting a new passport photo. And everything just works.
Edit: and before anyone points out that we’re not in EU, yes - but we’re in the EEA.