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France had Minitel before the Internet was a consumer-product.

It's true that Europe does "disruptive" startups less, because people don't like being disrupted as much, but it's not true that France is a land of tech-illiterate peasants. It's just that the tech is done in large, somewhat lumbering but nonetheless profitable, megacorps.

Orange, Vivendi, Airbus, Bull, ST, and so on.



Why exaggerate with peasants? Also funny down below someone chastises me for apparently rooting for "megacorps"... the irony.




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