[robotresearcher]

With exceptions. Linux being the most obvious example.

[BjoernKW]

Linux is no EU project, but very much global. It just happens that its originator (who, quite tellingly, has been living and working in the US since the mid-90s) is Finnish.

[robotresearcher]

I was using Linux for work while Linus was still in Europe.

All the large US tech companies are also global. Cuts both ways.