I hope Sweden and more Erupoean contries does the same
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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It’s so weird that a continent with the population, education and wealth of Europe struggles with.. software? These are all solved problems and software development becomes easier by the day. Come on.
We only struggle with what we produce not being bought up by American giants.
Writing the software isn't a problem. Having the company survive is.
Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.
The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.
It would be interesting to study those cases, to see exactly what failed. We’re not weak and should be able to survive in „globalization“ context. Anyway, now it’s (more obviously) a matter of security too.
I would assume this is more a Finland specific problem, AFAIK Slovakia for example has a private cloud for all government IT stuff.
Though that might be due to corruption in this state....
They didn’t used to. England in particular had a leg up during the PC revolution. There are also a lot of really great game studios there in the 90s.
And to be fair there still are some, but they broke al lot of ground in the early days. I don’t know what happened; American enshittification possibly left a bad taste in a lot of folks mouths.
The studios are still there in a lot of cases, but they are part of EA or other giants.
Finland already has very good datacenter companies, as one would expect...
I moved my VPS to a finnish company almost 10 years ago before data sovereignty was cool
I heard Japan is starting to get big in the cloud sector.
Lol
They don’t exactly have an excess of land to build datacenters
How so?
Not even starting seems like the best way to deal with this halting problem