“As mentioned in this CNET article, Tuesday at OSBC London I
opened the conference with a suggestion: Europe, the birthplace and
cradle of the open source revolution, needs to reassert itself as
the center of the open source phenomenon. Linux, MySQL, JBoss
(Well, Marc is French with influences of Spain in him… :-),
Trolltech, etc. These early open source leaders all came out of
Europe.“As open source has commercially matured, however, the United
States has taken over. Silicon Valley has funded the next round of
open source, and we’re not necessarily the better for it…”