I am trying to move away from US tech for ages actually and last year i transitioned from Google photos to ente. I am very happy with them but now i was checking if they are based in US.
I can’t seem to figure it out. They have their corporate postal addresses in US, but also addresses in Netherlands and Finland. Also it seems that they are based thought the world and do remote work so I ma at a dilemma between accepting them as they are or having to find an alternative to them
Ask yourself is Amazon an American company even though they operate everywhere in the world?
The answer is yes.
I think comparing Amazon, a trillion dollar company owned by one of the richest person in the world who’s done untold damage to people and communities, to a FOSS company - who make a point to stand by good principles and is not a massive damaging entity - is unfair.
Maybe the only thing that matters is if a company is founded, owned, and operated exclusively or primarily within the EU borders - but I’d wager there is value in this group including some instances of non-EU companies that are good services, not-evil, and don’t have EU alternatives that are at least not-evil.