Comment Re:Makes no sense to me (Score 2, Interesting) 100
There may be an additional factor here.
In the private sector growing companies from out side of the US will get them selves a Silicon Valley address. This an important strategy for continued growth especially for the lucrative US market. From a marketing point of view Americans prefer to buy from someone they see as American and for the rest of the world a Silicon Valley address is seen as pedigree.
I can't speak for any existing Open Source project, but t seems to me, if you have developers from around the globe a Silicon Valley address would be the best of an otherwise arbitrary choice of location if you want market acceptance.
In the private sector growing companies from out side of the US will get them selves a Silicon Valley address. This an important strategy for continued growth especially for the lucrative US market. From a marketing point of view Americans prefer to buy from someone they see as American and for the rest of the world a Silicon Valley address is seen as pedigree.
I can't speak for any existing Open Source project, but t seems to me, if you have developers from around the globe a Silicon Valley address would be the best of an otherwise arbitrary choice of location if you want market acceptance.
