Why No Famous Open Source Projects From Britain/Ireland?

Hey.
How come there are no famous and widely-used open source products that
were founded and (more or less) developed from the United Kingdom or
Ireland? I find that odd.

Perl was founded, largely developed, and led by Larry Wall, who I
think is American(mainly in California?).

You got:
Linux -> Linus Torvalds -> formerly Finland, now California
Python -> Guido van Rossum -> formerly the Netherlands, now California

InnoDB -> a group in Finland, bought by Oracle, (coming to California
soon?)
MySQL -> Sweden
Qt -> Norway
Mandriva -> France (Paris , I believe)
OCaml -> somewhere in France

SUSE -> Germany (still there I believe, although now owned by Novell)
Knoppix -> Klaus Knopper -> Germany

Europe does seem to be good at exporting open source programmers. Oh
hey, come on you europeans, you gotta have a sense of humor! You got
the best weather in the world, lovely place. Would go back there if I
had the money.

.

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