Um, people like me, writing open source code? The Chinese quickly wrote HarmonyOS when they were excluded by sanction from Android? Have you seen the quality of commercial code, Salesforce enterprise apps? MSFT is a national security catastrophe with an effective govt sales force.

Everything you love is built on stuff like linux, the postgres database, open source crypto libraries. Yeah, Google and Open AI did important research, pioneering the latest next big thing. They make their contributions. Usually during periods when they are insulated from commercial concerns.