I would also say that there’s more and more, for example, Google and Resolve and other multinationals considering Taiwan to be not just the market, but actually the head culture of R&D in this part of the world. That’s certainly true for Google and Microsoft. Many people who think about the software innovation of those multinationals, chances are that they’re developed in Taiwan. I’m using this Nokia flip phone and running KaiOS and I’m reminded that KaiOS is based on the Firefox OS effort that booted Gecko. Actually, most of the software engineers there were Mozilla Taiwan. Even though we don’t print Taiwan on all the products that we make in the software world, actually, there’s a lot of contributions, especially in the free software world.

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