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"These virtually make no money,"

Did you mean TurboPascal didn't make money, or C#? RedHat makes no money? Even MS Office leader Simonyi was European, no money from Office? And the list can be very long. Who cares who owns ARM now, who developed it, and who's making lots of money from it?

Nobody is saying US did nothing, but also it used a big source of Europeans to create commercial products. There's nothing negative in it, in many ways it was and it is a win-win situation. Great co-operation between US and Europe can deliver huge benefits.

That's of course doesn't mean megacorps should be allow to ignore the rules wherever they operate, especially when they make life worse for many, not better.

Again, go to the EU antitrust site - you will see EU companies, including German and French ones, are routinely fined when they break the rules. The fact you ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. For example German car makers are under investigation for setting up a cartel. Did you miss the news? Don't read IT news only, it's limiting.

About WWII, it is true US helped greatly to defeat Nazism. It also got a lot German technology, scientists, and technicians, and, for example, went to the Moon using it.... Goddard alone wasn't enough.

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