Comment Re:Everyone loves open source but ... (Score 1) 30
Intel, AMD, Microsoft. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Youtube.
Intel/AMD and Microsoft would be a problem as many businesses depend on those and migrating takes time. Especially Microsoft. Cloud companies are also critical, if you depend on proprietary services inside them.
The issue in many cases here are not that there is no competition, it's that the US companies are dominant. Economy of scale is extremely important in R&D heavy businesses.
Something like Facebook would be felt, yes, but people would move on, just like they moved on from Myspace.