Why is there no europian computer?

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[–]TiwakingMy Pronouns are Nigger and Boss Nigger 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

There are several reasons:

1) Unions - Unions stifle development

2) Restrictive labour laws. This makes hardware development extremely difficult. R&D loses money until a breakthrough is found. And probably still loses money after that

3) Military funding. Arpanet and all of the Computer hardware had virtually unlimited military funding at the start.

4) Lack of cohesion. This is the biggest obstacle to corporations. You cant mash 24 or more countries together and expect them to be able to compete with a single, giant, unified country.

[–]RatherSmallPotato 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Lack of cohesion.

This so much! if you want to make a simple app you need to have 5 languages and cater for a bunch cultural differences.