Yup, a lot of good things are happening in Europe right now.
The understanding of the basic principles by politicians is still very much lacking, they still tend to believe those that treat them on citytrips and expensive dinners, but in the end, they have to make ends meet, and that's the strong point of open source software. Politicians go for open source software for the wrong reasons, but the end result is still the same.
Now that Google has sold Motorola to Lenovo, there is also hope for the US again. Will the US government take bribes from Microsoft & Co and prohibit the use of Motorola devices next to Lenovo laptops, because Lenovo refuses to implement NSA spiked BIOS and actively markets full open source solutions? Will IBM sell its server business to Lenovo? I don't know, but Lenovo is de facto the only healthy x86 hardware business in the world right now, and put that together with the fact that Intel is systematically shifting the gravitational point of its R&D operations to China, it's clear that the industry has taken less than 2 years time to structurally work around the US governmental stupidity, and that they've set up base camp in a country that has no affinity whatsoever with closed source software and US patents.
Fact is that closed source is nonsense. People that don't use open source software for whatever bogus reason that has been planted into their minds by clever marketeers, are just part of the problem, but the problem is not insurmountable, open source is winning because it's so much better than closed source, that the economy needs it and can't evolve without open source. In the embedded industries, that has been proven time in time again. On the x86-platform, that has been proven time in time again also, but still the brainwashing by the corporate liars prevails for many uneducated consumers. But hey, the lie always comes in a nicer packaging than the truth. And in IT, that's as true as in automobiles: if Intel changes the plain packaging of their CPU's to a more flashy graphic packaging, like they did with Haswell, you don't even have to try out the product to know that it's going to suck balls and cost a lot more for a lot less. When I see a fancy ad or a fancy box, I only have one question: what's so wrong with this product that it needs such a fancy packaging or ad campaign... and everyone knows that that's just the truth. Packaging boxes and ad campaigns are the polygraphs of the consumer product industry: the more ink, the bigger the lie.