• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    France has a tech sector?

    Aesthetically I like reading technical texts in French.

    (Contrary to the stereotype, romantic texts not so much, that’s where English is better ; and despite trying my best, I still haven’t found a way to like Dutch ; neutral on German.)

    But the point is - has anything big lifted off in France in the last 20 years or so?

    I’m not talking about quite a few particular people whose names should be in history books. I’m talking about companies and systems.

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      3 hours ago

      There is a french tech sector: Doctolib, BlaBlaCar, and a few other original ideas have opened new types of services and taken their hold over Europe. Yet, those services cannot be adapted to individualistic north America.